Well, President Elect Obama has really done it this time. He went and nominated Timothy Gethiner to be the new Treasury Secretary. Gethiner is currently the President of the New York Federal Reserve. He is also the Vice Chariman of the Federal Open Market Committee. He started his career working for Henry Kissinger’s consulting firm, then moved on to work under George Bush Sr. in the treasury department. Geithner then moved on to work for the Council on Foreign Relations, a conservative foreign policy think tank.
Add all this up and what do you get? Our future president is looking for someone more pragmatic to run the Treasury. Someone who, perhaps, doesn't believe the government should fund business. Someone who will probably do a good job.
Sadly, though...
Add all this up in looney land and what do you get? Communist! Pinko! Stealer of my money! I want my money! Wah!!!
Well, at least those are just a few of the comments I have heard thus far since the announcement of Gethiner's appointment. Ah well, as long as they continue to make sense:)
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"Someone who, perhaps, doesn't believe the government should fund business."
Hmmmmm....let's just pounder that for a while.
Someone who, perhaps, doesn't believe the government should fund business.
Oh, so now we can expect the incoming administration to oppose bailing out GM, Ford and Chrysler? Excellent, but doesn't that go against what Obama has said - and you always say to judge him by his words, not his actions.
Also M, the CFR is not 'conservative', but it is bipartisan. It, along with the Trilateral Commission, is viewed with considerable suspicion by some of the right (paleocons in particular).
Dang…beaten to the punch.
An observation… I’m not terribly familiar w/ many of Obama’s selections other than the headlines. But, for those looking for “Change You Can Believe In”, isn’t it looking an awful lot like a 3rd Clinton term? I’m not saying they’ll be good or bad, but are all you Obama supporters starting to come down to earth a little bit? …Kind’ve assembling a team of boiler plate democrats isn’t he?
Dave’s Story Time:
On a personal note, I was playing wing-man to a recently divorced friend at a local watering hole this past weekend. We were doing quite well, in my humble opinion, and had secured the necessary digits. However, politics & the economy came up late and though it was very cordial at first, the young ladies kept pushing…really kept pushing for negativity toward the current administration and extolling the water walking abilities of our President Elect. Well, long story short, upon direct examination, I ‘confessed’ to voting for McCain. Goodness how the tone changed. Humor evaporated and every comment was then dissected in the political realm. Now, being one that can have a very self-deprecating sense of humor, and can bash Republicans w/ the best of them, for my friend’s sake, we recovered the situation and so long as I jokingly bashed this or that Republican, things went along swimmingly. But they were not satisfied and went further down that road. I then opened the big can of worms by admitting to campaigning for Bush. It was like a steel curtain came down between us. Icy. Civility was gone. Nothing could have recovered from that. So much for liberal tolerance…
Ironically, their chucky friend, who was doing very well for herself with, from my angle, appeared to be a guy far removed from her league, came by during our conversations to say that she met a good looking guy but had to lose him because he was a Republican.
…just saying…
Dave, the women who you met, and there are many out there, haven't been properly fucked (or chowed if you prefer) which usually lends itself to this sort of behavior.
Clearly the women you were with have no earthly idea how to have an orgasm.
I agree. I dated a Republican for awhile. We argued about politics all the time and then we had great sex.
No doubt, MC, they don't know how to come.
I agree, Sara. As Mark would say, Dave, those women had ten foot poles up the arses. Oh, wait, do you live in Minneapolis?
Someone who will Probably do a good job? And your evidence is? You had to have just made that one up. The job of the president of the New York Federal reserve is to, according to its own web site, is to supervise and regulate financial institutions in the Second District [Wall Street]. Its primary objective is to maintain safe and competitive U.S. and global banking systems. Gethiner has been in that post since 2003 and during that time the U.S. financial system has come close to complete disintegration and markadelphia now thinks he deserves a promotion. What analysis there genius.
Here's a quote from another one of obamas appointments -
One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future plans might be, where other cells are located; under the Geneva Convention that you are really limited in the amount of information that you can elicit from people. It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves, however, that they are not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not prisoners of war. If, for instance, Mohamed Atta had survived the attack on the World Trade Center, would we now be calling him a prisoner of war? I think not. Should Zacarias Moussaoui be called a prisoner of war? Again, I think not.
-----Shameless NeoCon Eric Holder. Must be that childish understanding of the region.
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