Tim Geithner’s So Radioactive He Can’t Even Get a Deputy or Any Secretaries or Any Assistants!

He does look like Uerkle!! LMAO!

Ok, ok. For a million dollar per year annual salary, I’ll be an undersecretary to Turbo Tax Timmy! One condition, I don’t want to be seen publicly anywhere near him or Obozo and if required to do so, it will require a massive bonus. All payments are required up front, in cash. Have him email me and we’ll set it up!

BTW, I have no experience, but that seems to be the new American way!

Oh God, that’s the funniest pic yet. Is there a Obama pic hall of fame? It needs to be right up there with the New Yorker cover!

Unfortunately, Obama does seem to have a downer effect on the economy.

Can we vote him off the island, yet?

The fact that you’re now stealing from perhaps the most hateful figure in American politics makes me extremely happy.

Nice to see you showing your true colors.

I got that picture in an email last week. It was quite the rage to all I sent in on to.

President Experiment Erkel

Randy,

Please explain to us why Obama has the reverse effect on the economy despite the fact that his minions, that would be you, Randy, and the media sold him as the next messiah.

Actually, Randy, your colors seem to be all too neon with shades of kool-aid.

What we are actually facing if the nation continues to follow the current trajectory.

America’s Fiscal Collapse
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, March 2, 2009
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12517

I’m rolling on the floor laughing! That pic sooo hilarious!!! LMAO

Nah I’m just gonna keep laughing at the fact that this website just stole from Mishy Malkin.

Yep, he’s the “cooler” for the economy. Question is who is the “pit boss”?

various things have contributed to this, I guess, including vetting procedures

Why isn’t somebody without vetting baggage being considered to begin with? Is it because the people doing the selection don’t have any “clean” contacts?

Financial Disarmament: By Michel Chossudovsky

“There are no solutions under the prevailing global financial architecture. Meaningful policies cannot be achieved without radically reforming the workings of the international banking system.

What is required is an overhaul of the monetary system including the functions and ownership of the central bank, the arrest and prosecution of those involved in financial fraud both in the financial system and in governmental agencies, the freeze of all accounts where fraudulent transfers have been deposited, the cancellation of debts resulting from fraudulent trade and/or market manipulation.

People across the land, nationally and internationally, must mobilize. This struggle to democratise the financial and fiscal apparatus must be broad-based and democratic encompassing all sectors of society at all levels, in all countries. What is ultimately required is to disarm the financial establishment:

-confiscate those assets which were obtained through fraud and financial manipulation.

-restore the savings of households through reverse transfers

-return the bailout money to the Treasury, freeze the activities of the hedge funds. .

– freeze the gamut of speculative transactions including short-selling and derivative trade.”

It isn’t Obama telling America every damn day that the stock market is going to crash through the floor boards. There are people out there deliberately talking it down. Just listen closely to the market news. You’ll see the pattern. The intention is to blame Obama, as they’re already doing. They want a deepening economic crisis as a means to regain political control. They’ll destroy the financial security of millions of small investors to achieve that end. They won’t be hurting for long. They have plenty of money in reserve. They can take the hit when the DOW drops below 5000. What they figure they’ll have at that point is their political control back, plus an unprecedented opportunity to convert their holdings back into stocks purchased at bargain basement prices. They’ll come out of this just fine. The small investor will be left in ruins, without even a stable Social Security system to fall back on.

sounds like someone’s tin foil is too tight.

Do you think the far right doesn’t have an organized strategy to take down Obama? Or that they haven’t already started applying it? They’re working the one thing they’ve got: The economic crisis. It is not to the republicans’ advantage for that to improve prior to the 2010 elections. Continuing deterioration is their friend, so long as they can pin it on Obama.. Remember that, and it will explain their every action.

Maybe you should remove your own tin foil hat.

Dude, listen to yourself. Yeah, in a democratic controlled congress and Administrative Branch, the republicans are forcing these businesses to bankrupt themselves and the american economy just to bring Obama down.

Why don’t you just take it one step further and say that they are just doing it because he is black.

Yep thats right, they are conspiring behind close doors to bring the black president down by bankrupting themselves and all of america!

DRAMA! DRAMA! DRAMA!

This picture is now my desktop background.

People with “clean contacts” aren’t the ones that rise to these positions for consideration anymore.

Jealous? Angry? Too.freaking.bad.

Some of the comments were the best.

Since I don’t have a job, I am definitely thinking about the bumper sticker ….

Obama lied and the Stock Market died

Taking preorders.

Don’t know if it is a Republican conspiracy per se. However, those with huge cash reserves will make a huge windfall in the future. It is to someone’s advantage when the economy does this. Even when the banks fail, the bankers still have money. JD Rockfeller had money after the panic of 1873. Bought up everything at firesale prices creating a nice monopoly for himself so that he could give out dimes to the losers. The faces and names may have changed in history, but the predatory business behavior has not.

Obama is no Roosevelt. Remember the Republicans stole the nomination from Teddy Roosevelt and gave it to their puppet Taft. TR ran as the Bull Moose candidate splitting the republican electorate giving the presidency to Wilson. There was also considerable manipulation to prevent FDR from getting the Democratic nomination and give it to another puppet. That plan fortunately failed. They managed to squash Hillary Clinton this time around. Now the historical revisionist want to blame the entire 1929 Depression on FDR policies. Don’t even think that they are setting the stage not only to keep Obama the puppet, but to turn public opinion against him even before he considers he might try to be another Roosevelt.

Gary I agree with you. The people who are controlled are have vested interest are going to scream socialism at every twist and turn to make sure globalization continues.

Mishy? Gosh, you sound like you have a crush.

“Take a long-term perspective” Barack Obama, regarding “Profit and Earnings ratios”

Love that picture!
When the ship of state sinks, Bo will be in the water whipping his head about looking for sharks, and Geithner will be dog-paddling with his water-wings!
If you immbolized their neck and hands, neither of them could say a word!

Typical Obot. It always tries smoke and mirrors rather than address the real issue.

You would think that with so many unemployed financial wizards out there that they could get the pick of the litter.

Beyond vetting issues and Geithner’s less than impressive debut, people are probably reluctant to be associated with what they perceive to be a sinking ship. I mean, that could be a real downer on their resume.

Obama’s intent in talking down the economy from the git-go was obviously meant to buy time and avoid responsibility if the economy tanked. Of course that was a bad idea because at some point people will stop blaming Bush and Co. and hold him responsible no matter what he inherited. By his own action (and words which do indeed “count”) he has found himself between a rock and a hard place because of his selfish desire to cover his own bee-hind and has demoralized the markets which will filter into the general populace at some point.

His attempts to bite off so much change at the beginning is also scary and spooky — better if he had concentrated on getting the banks turned around before approaching everything else in one-fell swoop.

Their efforts at demonizing Republicans by tying them to Rush Limbaugh also seems stupid right now. While it would be appropriate during a campaign, it doesn’t seem so smart when you’re trying to garner Republican votes to pass your massive plans. Can’t have it both ways.

Quite right Linda. I’m hearing news commentators and radio hosts talk about the Great Depression only in relation to FDR. No mention of Hoover at all.

Unless you’re current with American history you may fall for this twisted version. Some folks, including some so-called liberals and Democrats, are jumping on the ‘Bash FDR’ train.

Hey ziggy, remember when the bad economy was instrumental in getting Obama elected? Before the election, everyone agreed that bad economic figures would help Obama because he was sooooooo much better than McCain on the economy, even though Obama had zero practical experience in the discipline. Remember when the Democrats where hoping for, and helped to create economic problems because they knew it would get their guy into office? Well, as Rev. Wright would say “The chickens have come home to roost”. And to use another cliche, Obama has been “Hoist with his own petard”.

I’m beginning to wonder who won in November. At first Obots were screaming we won and we’re in charge now!

Then when the financial news isn’t good it’s a right wing conspiracy and the man they touted as The Messiah is helpless before it. I think The Messiah should be able to take care of himself.

The last time I saw gyrations like these, by supporters, to avoid having their leadership take responsibility was under GWB. Obots are fun-house mirror images of those supporters.

I never listened to Rush Limbaugh before Saturday’s televised speech in front of the CPAC crowd (and that was accidental as I was hoping to catch Eye of Newt and instead ran into Rush). Well, I was very surprised. That guy is dynamite. He must have scared the empty suits big time. I think the WH came off looking very scared with their response to LImbaugh. Better to have ignored him, is what I think. Oddly, the Repubs can’t seem to capitalize on these moments. The badly managed Jindal response to Obama’s speech was a big mistake. Not long after, Steele’s response to the WH linking of Rush to the Repubs was even goofier. As a lifelong Dem with liberal leanings (although conservative on spending), I had been indoctrinated since the Vietnam years to think of the Repubs as some sort of evil “machine” that planned, plotted and executed “strategies” to destroy the rest of us. Then, with the 2008 primary coverage by our disgusting MSM, I started listening to the other voices I had tuned out all these years. As Obama continues to lead us over a cliff, the Repubs are stumbling and bumbling. Ah well, to get back on topic (‘m sorry for going off the rail), as an unemployed marketing professional, I’d hire on with Geithner’s office for a few months, just to get some consulting work. He definitely needs some lessons in how to “sell it, baby, sell it!” He’s hard to watch, this Turbo Tax addict. It would be even funnier if Geithner quits and leaves the entire table empty. Who would Volcker pity then?

Maybe the guy realized he’d be working under someone that was confused about their actual job responsibilities.

“US Treasury secretary attacks oil, gas tax breaks
Thu Mar 5, 2009 3:18am IST

By Tom Doggett

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) – U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Wednesday.

It was one of the sharpest attacks yet on the oil and gas industry by a top Obama administration official, reinforcing the White House stance that new U.S. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and rely less on traditional fossil fuels like oil as America tackles climate change.

“We don’t believe it makes sense to significantly subsidize the production and use of sources of energy (like oil and gas) that are dramatically going to add to our climate change (problem).”

She doesn’t have any tax problems; she’s an inaccurate fit for the administration.

We don’t believe

So who is “we” anyway. Answer that simple bit and we may know everything.

‘Bash FDR’? Because he deserves serious bashing.

Hoover has always gotten the blame, and he SHOULD get plenty of blame, but the meme is that he was ‘hands-off’ and nothing could be farther from the truth. If only he HAD been ‘hands-off’.

Hoover did exactly the kind of things both Bush and Obama are doing now to ‘help’ the economy, protectionism being just one of them.

FDR ran on a promise of cutting government spending 25%, sounding a LOT like the ‘smaller-government’ Obama. But when FDR got into office, he doubled-down on all Hoover’s mistakes. Just like Obama is doing now.

Don’t forget that the depression of 1919-20 was every bit as bad as 1929, but it was over within 18 months, followed by the Roaring Twenties. A logically-minded person would look at the data and say that, ‘maybe’, based on historical events, trying to fix a depression only makes it worse, or at least, longer. Of course, we only have ‘economists’, and the way to be a successful economist is to simply proclaim big government is always the solution.

It’s not about black. It’s about green, as in money.

There are those on the right who are genuinely concerned about Obama owing to their philosophical principles. But there are others who desire political dominance simply to keep the wealth flowing to where they want it. Such people cloak themselves in high-sounding, principled rhetoric that only serves as a means to that end. These are the same people who had little concern about enormous federal deficits or “earmarks” until the power shifted.

Conspiracy implies complex plots and covert machinations. The word is often used these days to discredit some particular theory. What I’m observing is pretty much right out in the open. It’s a simple pattern of behavior: Encourage declining confidence in economic recovery with continuous dire predictions; fixate attention on fallen and fluctuating market prices as the barometer, correlating each dip with some action or inaction on the part of your opposition. As confidence wanes the effect becomes more pronounced, and anxiety levels rise. In 2010 you make your case that the other guys were entirely to blame, and that their attempts to turn the tide have failed.

Like I said, confidence in a recovery is not the republicans’ friend. Recovery before the 2010 elections is not something they want. Obama’s success would be their failure. So, between now and the elections, they will errode the confidence we need to reverse market trends at every opportunity. What could be more obvious?

There are those on the right who are genuinely concerned about Obama owing to their philosophical principles. But there are others who desire political dominance simply to keep the wealth flowing to where they want it. Such people cloak themselves in high-sounding, principled rhetoric that only serves as a means to that end. These are the same people who had little concern about enormous federal deficits or “earmarks” until the power shifted.

That sounds like neocons, as well as the former Democratic Party to me.

What could be more obvious?

That you’ve been an insufferable and unwelcome obamabot on this blog since last summer, at least, and make no more sense now than you did then.

Ziggy. You seem to forget that Obama blamed Bush for everything under the sun and went further by lying and saying that John McCain, if elected would implement all of Bush’s policies giving us 4 more years of Bush. Well it is now clear that whether you agree with them or not, it is Obama who is implementing most of Bush’s policies (FISA, Rendition, financial policy, helping the banks, keeping troops in Iraq, etc). IN OBAMA WE HAVE BUSHII. Brother, as we say in the AA community, you have been had !!!

4 more years of Bush

I remember it well… the rhetorical rant… America can’t take four more years of George Bush. Ironic isn’t it? We now know Obama is the mirror image of Bush II. At once the exact opposite, yet exactly the same in effects. We need to guard for the rebound bounce and make sure we don’t wind up with Bush IV in 2012. We need to learn from this, as there are many lessons here to be learned.

Encourage declining confidence in economic recovery with continuous dire predictions; fixate attention on fallen and fluctuating market prices as the barometer, correlating each dip with some action or inaction on the part of your opposition. As confidence wanes the effect becomes more pronounced, and anxiety levels rise. In 2010 you make your case that the other guys were entirely to blame, and that their attempts to turn the tide have failed.

Hhhhhhhhhh?

Why does this sound so darn much like what happened to the economy that got little Lord Flauntitlaroy elected? The war in Iraq was turning out just like McCain said it would with the surge, so the markets went into a Soros inspired spiral? Live by the decline …… you can figure the rest out, right?

ooops … I knew I’d read my comments somewhere … thanks!

I like the bumper sticker “Rush is Right!” – Can’t believe this 30 year FORMER Democrat is even listening to Rush at all, but these are times when pigs are flying, up is down, hell is freezing over and I voted for an honorable hero with integrity.

The only problem with that argument is you’d have to assume the houseing bubble and the subsequent bank crisis were political set-ups, when the circumstances that led to the bubble and the collapse had been building up over more than a decade–largely invisible to anyone but the very people who were deliberately and knowing bundling bogus loans and kiting worthless paper with deceptively high safety ratings. The crash didn’t come just because Obama commented on breaking news.

McCain certainly looked like 4 more years of Bush. He wouldn’t have been, of course, because McCain would now be dealing with the same melt-down scenario Obama now has on his plate. How would McCain have responded differently than Bush? More tax cuts, I presume, and the massively increased deficits that would go with them as federal revenues declined due both to deeper tax cuts and the tanking economy. What we would lack would be a spending plan to pour borrowed cash into a stalled economy–unless, of course, greatly expanded military spending could have somehow been arranged.

Perhaps someone should do a photo shop of Obama as JJ from the 80s sitcom “Good Times.”

I guess we’ll never know.

But we do know this. We’d have less pork in the current budget. And I doubt that someone in private life would find him or herself being held up for finger pointing in the press room. I think most adults would with money in the market would feel more confident. I think we’d have more of the cabinet in place. But again … we won’t know. What we do know is that the market has tanked. Spin that all you want.

largely invisible to anyone but the very people who were deliberately and knowing bundling bogus loans and kiting worthless paper with deceptively high safety ratings.

Most of which was aided and abetted by ACORN and their ridiculous demands that people who couldn’t afford to buy homes should nonetheless be permitted to. I’d like to buy a new car. Maybe they’d like to help me?

When you’re right, you’re right.

Seconded & a brilliant photo shop to boot!

I don’t think Obama=Bush III. I think Obama=Carter II.

Although I can hardly call myself a Republican, I too have opened my mind during this election season and have come to realize that truth (and folly) lie in both camps.

As a newly minted “Independent” like so many others on this site I am glad for that part at least. Better to take the blinders off and refresh one’s vision from time to time.

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lmao what an inaccurate picture, change it to G Dubya and it will make more sense