I just don’t know what to make of the revelation that Timothy Geithner, the new U.S. Treasury Secretary, failed to pay his own income taxes for several years.
I just don’t know.
Hey! Can we ask Stephen Colbert if it was all just an “innocent mistake”? Yes we can:
What could be more delicious? A Secretary of State with international conflicts of interest? (Check.) A Chief of Staff linked to a corrupt, impeached governor? (Check.) A Commerce Secretary in a pay-for-play scandal? (Check.)
Oops — that Commerce Secretary nominee already withdrew his nomination to save face. If I were him, I’d be pretty ticked off. Turns out it’s all good.
Any chance the incoming Secretary of Defense ever vandalized an army recruiting station? Or how about a Health and Human Services nominee who’s been convicted of spreading bird-flu and AIDS? A downsizing and outsourcing consultant as Secretary of Labor ?
Hope. Change. Meet the new boss …
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I wonder if any of these appointees ever had friends that blew stuff up and killed people. Or planned on bombing recruiting stations… oh wait.
“The IMF and World Bank reimburse employees, including U.S. citizens, for their U.S. taxes, which individuals are expected to pay on their own. That implies Mr. Geithner retained payments from the IMF that were supposed to be used for taxes.”
Uhm, if you are being reimbursed for taxes you are supposed to be paying kind of tough to claim ignorance.
If there is now a conflict with Clinton becoming Secretary of State…hello people… don’t you think there was a conflict when she wanted to run for President? MSM just didn’t want to bring it up.
It looks like every team is corrupt, so where is the change?
Pasta- it was just “extreme vanadalism” so it is/was perfectly fine. What is up with you right-wing neocon extremists? Can’t a guy try to blow up some soldiers, or kill a cop, without you holding it over his head all the time?
Geez- you conservatives have no sense of humor! There is nothing funnier than when some of your cohorts blow themselves up by accident when making their “water balloons”. Like, OMG, I had the Tab I was drinking come out my nose when I heard what happneded.
@ Lisa
They’re corrupt Democrats now. See? HUGE difference.
I don’t actually think there is anything funnier than hippies getting blown to smithereens. Except when I saw that fat guy fall down outside. What can I say I’m a humanitarian.
If this is change then I am a married virgin. This is just regergitation of the Clinton empire. Obama can only do what the teleprompters tell him to. One small light in all of this crap – Obama can fire Hillary as Secretary of State.
Wait a minute, I’m confused.
Obama nominated Joe the Plumber for Treasury?
Funny how the media explains this away as an innocent mistake when Giethner forgets to pay his taxes but the same thing was huge news when Joe the plumber didn’t pay his $1000 tax lien. Joe was investigated and all he did was ask a question. Giethner is going to be the secretary of the treasury and it is seen as no big deal.
Typical Dumbocrats. Advocate a tax hike, but don’t bother to pay your own damn taxes! Sound familiar? Kennedy Klan does it all the time!
Its like a bad TV sitcom. Oh wait you couldn’t write something this ridiculous and expect people to believe it.
it appears the prerequisite for getting into politics is to be a self serving finger pointer that screws everybody…the dems and the repubs make me nauseous….
They may as well have nominated Bernie Madoff instead.
Bernie Madoff probably would be a better choice.
Okay, even if forgetting to pay taxes is an “innocent mistake” as every media source seems to say it was… I don’t care! Dude, if you can’t remember you pay your taxes (a “holiday” talked about as much as Christmas) then I don’t want you touching the country’s funds–innocent or not.
Obama said he was embarrassed and that it was an innocent mistake. So if I forget to pay my taxes this year, do you think the IRS would consider it just an innocent mistake?
Remember when Bush Nominated Linda Chavez for a cabinet position? And she had to withcraw because the democrats found out she had given $100 dollars to her Next door nieghbors maid to got get cleaned up do to a domestic abuse situation?
Then the found out the Maid was an illegle immigrant? Mind you, it was not Her maid but her neighbors. And she gave her $100 for an emergency. After a full FBI investigation, she was found to have broken no laws, but the damage was done. They kept the hispanic woman out of Bush’s Office.
If this disqualifies her, I would think not paying Taxes would disqualify the secratary of Tres….
Just saying.
apparently, when agitated, I spell terrible!
You all are forgetting that we are plebes and us plebes have to remember stuff like paying our taxes ourselves. Important people, like those who want to work in politics, have people to remember for them.
See it is not his fault, it is an innocent mistake, his people forgot not him. So please let him do his job.
Hey question for anyone who knows..Has Obama’s “illegal” aunt been deported yet? Because when Obama learned she was here illegally – during the election – he claimed he would follow the laws on immigration regarding his aunt.
Who knew that finding an entire Cabinet of uncorrupted politicians would be so…impossible? Oh wait, everyone except Obama. And I voted for the guy. Still glad I did but he might want to start pulling more people from outside the political “in group” or we’ll have more “faceplant” moments like this?
What I love is that we’ve got politicians (left & right) saying that we desperately need Geithner confirmed because he’s the only person on the face of the planet who understands the TARP program.
Really?
The only person?
So you yourself don’t?
THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU PASS THE DAMN BILL????????????????
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/01/15/tax-goof-update-geithner-was-reimbursed-amounts-he-didnt-pay-ap-story-bu
Bet he didn’t ‘forget’ to cash the cheque
So only he can understand TARP but he can’t understand small numbers and letters like IRS TAXES.
Can I please, please, please ignore my taxes until Obama nominates me for a cabinate position?! I could really use the money.
I joked when the Blagojevich office-auctioning broke out that we didn’t need to worry about the Prince Elect’s involvement in it. It’s just sale of offices, monarchies have been doing that for forever!
Now we have one of the “elites” not paying his taxes, for which he’ll probably receive little more than a slap on the wrist and a cushy position to boot.
Next kid I see with one of those “Progress” shirts with Obama’s face emblazoned across it gets punched in the teeth.
The new head of the VA was the most overtly despised Army Chief of Staff in history by the troops. Maybe he’ll create a new slogan and a new hat to fix the problems of the VA.
In answer to Lisa’s question about Obama’s aunt, she attended his inauguration and is likely living somewhere in Cleveland (no doubt, in a foreclosed home). She has an immigration hearing in April:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_aunt