Paul Wants Vote of No Confidence on Geithner

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Roll Call

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who is pushing for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to resign, said Wednesday that he will introduce a resolution when the Senate returns from recess that seeks a vote of no confidence in Geithner.

“The stock market gave a vote of no confidence to Timothy Geithner,” Paul said, attributing the stock markets’ ebbs and flows to Geithner’s handling of the economy. “Geithner has shown no acumen in predicting, diagnosing or treating America’s economic woes. The time has come for him to resign.”

Last week, Geithner told President Barack Obama that he would stay on through the end of the president’s first term. The move followed speculation that the secretary was considering leaving his post and that the White House, wary of a high-profile confirmation battle with a restive Senate, was pushing Geithner to stay.

Paul’s comments come in the wake of a tumultuous economic cycle. Last week, after months of partisan warfare yielded a deal to raise the debt limit and cut spending, Standard & Poor’s downgraded U.S. debt — the first time an rating agency has done such a thing. The agency cited the dysfunction of Congress as a major factor in its decision.

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[Staph]

1. Does the little twerp realize

that this is not a parliamentary system? Of course not, that subject is not covered in Ayn Rand or optometry school.

OT -- I saw Rand Paul this summer in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. He stands well over five foot tall. Many things about him became suddenly clear.


:evilgrin:

[Inuca]

7. My first thought as well

Does such a thing even exist in the US? WTF? Baby Paul is an embrassment to Papa Paul, of whom I am most definitely not a fan but in some strange way kind of respect. He is extreme, he is a bit of a cook, but he seems smart, gutsy, and he is not nasty, there is no vitriol about him. His son OTOH is just appaling.

[AverageJoe90]

19. Papa Paul is just as bad.

He's just a bit more polite and a smoother talker, that's all.

[MADem]

14. +100!!! Hear, hear!!! NT

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Does he remember what country he's supposed to be leading?

Will Paul be calling for a vote of "no confidence" (and brains) in himself and his fellow Republican Tea Partiers whose monkeying around over the debt ceiling and refusal to seek a balanced approach essentially precipitated the downgrade and fresh uncertainty in the stock market?

:wtf:

[harun]

3. Only thing we all agree on is our dislike of Geithner.

[polichick]

4. Can we get a vote of No Confidence on the teabagging idiots too?

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Hey Rand! Give Tim a break!

He's running the country into the ground as fast as he can.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Makes sense to me given that Treasury creates the budget and manages fiscal policy.

Oh wait...

[jpak]

8. Want a vote of "get some brains moran" for Li'l Rand

dumbass

yup

[JAnthony]

9. Rand Paul is either purposefully misleading or just

a libertarian asshole like all the rest of the libertarians.

Libertarians are bullies that grew up and still don't want to follow the rules of society, still don't understand the purpose of government, nor how to fix what might be wrong with governments. Their solution is always to just toss it out the window like the baby and the bathwater.

Libertarians make horrible lawmakers, mostly because they haven't thought out the unintended consequences of their fantasies, nor have they grasped much sense of an interdependency within society.

One can be for same sex marriage, or decriminalization of certain drugs without wanting to wholesale abandon rational economic regulation of the financial industry. It was and still is PRECISELY BECAUSE of LACK of rational regulation, combined with two of the longest and most expensive foreign wars that we got to our current economic status. Bush might as well have been a Libertarian when it came to economic issues, he was so damn stupid!

People are free to dislike or disagree with Geithner all they want. The answer isn't giving in to the likes of freshman Senator Rand Paul.

[MADem]

15. Or stupid....I vote for just plain old stupid. NT

[JAnthony]

16. Unfortunately not even any rich blond kid gets through medical school being stupid..

he knows what the heck he is doing.

He knows what investment markets to riches he wants to open up for himself and his family.

He knows EXACTLY what palms he wants to grease.

Libertarianism is nothing more nor less than self-centered unbridled unregulated feudalistic capitalism with a few carrots thrown in for the serfs, the right to shack up with whomever they want to shack up with, and the right to get buzzed on any substance they want to.

[MADem]

18. Bill Frist was stupid, and he got through medical school, too.

Just because someone has a good memory and a steady hand does not make them "smart."

I don't look at getting through medical school as an absolute proof of intelligence.

It's entirely possible to be good at one thing (the study of medicine) and be absolutely clueless in a zillion other areas. Frist and Paul seem to fit that bill to me.

That said, I agree with your characterization of libertarianism. Some people call them Republicans who want to get high as kites, fuck like mad, and then --if need be-- pay for their girlfriends' abortions.

[AzDar]

10. I still cannot believe this little shitwad is a Senator.

:thumbsdown:

[JAnthony]

17. Bought and paid for by the stupid in his state, combined with

millions of millions of coal and fossil fuel and investment industry dollars.

He's there because he was bought and paid for by the forces that are looking for lack of regulation of their own businesses.

[Larry Ogg]

11. Psychopaths like to play king of the hill and eat each other for lunch.

It's best not to chose sides, and hope they just kill each other off.

[Metta]

12. Even from someone as stupid and willful as him, this idea is long overdue.

Geithner was always a bad choice and he's proven that right at every turn.

[MADem]

13. Who gives a flying fuck what the coat-tailing RW child of a racist jerk wants? NT