Save your breath... neither Summers nor Geithner are going anywhere

[scheming daemons]

There won't be any resignations.

The Republicans and the Corporate shills WANT you to turn your anger on Obama's team.


Geithner and Summers didn't create this mess. It was created back in September.

They've been given a shit sandwich and everyone here is buying into the media-driven push to blame them for creating it.


Geithner will be Obama's treasurer through 2013. Write it down.


If you are calling for him to resign or be fired, you are being manipulated and don't realize it.


Don't do the GOP's dirty work for them. Don't fall for the bullshit.

This mess is Bush/Paulson's. Don't blame the freaking janitor for the toilet being clogged.

[Thrill]

1. Nor should they. How the hell can you get rid of Geithner before he even

gets a fully staffed Treasury.

I'm sorry. But I'm willing to see what this guy does when he gets his full team in place.

[Raven]

3. Bravo! I completely agree. Thanks. Let's all have a little patience.

[Clio the Leo]

2. Those on the right must be enjoying the torch and pitch fork parade we've become.

It's just karma's way of making up for all the fun we've had with Steele I guess. lol

[flamingdem]

4. Keep the eye on the ball people

the "outrage" over the AIG bonuses is a Red Herring. Don't even blink until we start to break down the theft of BILLIONS or at least the movement of billions. I trust Summers and Geithner to get closer than the average bear.

[lamp_shade]

5. Kick and recommend.

[woolldog]

6. "Don't blame the freaking janitor for the toilet being clogged."

You really have a way with words....

[greenbird]

7. THANK you.

Well said.

[amandabeech]

8. This mess started in the '80s when the first mortgage-backed security was sold.

A former colleague worked on these deals back in '85 at a big New York law firm.

It's been all down hill since then, with both Republicans and Democrats making bad moves along the way.

Unfortunately Summers and Geithner have been involved since the Clinton administration, and not all of their positions and actions have turned out well, to say the least.

[uponit7771]

9. Reading some history it looks like D & R's were sold on the "free market" notion as if the system we

...have now worked better than it did in the 1920's or that the country could absorb some more "risk" taking but it can't.

The risk allowed from the mid 70s on up till now has hurt this country

[amandabeech]

11. I can go with that analysis.

The only thing I'd add is (1) I'm not sure that Carter would fit in with the subsequent crowds, and (2) that human nature really doesn't seem to change much over time, whether it's the 1920's, the 1970's or the 2000's.

There are greedy, short-sighted sons-of-you-know-what out there ready to do us all harm for their own full wallets.

[nod factor]

10. I am not sure

why you are lumping Summers in with Geithner, I suspect you didn't like Summers to begin with and that's fine I wasn't crazy about him either I just think he's a dinosaur, but you are right the removal of Geithner right now would be a political explosion that I hope does not happen, not right now. However, you must come to the realization that Geithner's presence will continue to damage the Administration, righteously so or not. His selection by the team, even after knowing of his tax problems, was a huge blunder. A tax dodger cannot be Treasury Secretary it is really as simple as that. As soon as there is a speed bump that's all people will think of.

[eridani]

12. So we are permanently stuck with the deregulation that caused the meltdown in the first place?

If so, we are totally screwn.

[tbyg52]

13. Bingo. nt