michellemalkin.com - 1/16/2009
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My column carries the ball forward on the Tim Geithner debacle. [...] Read the rest »
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nytimes.com - 1/15/2009
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nytimes.com —
The tax transgressions by Timothy F. Geithner, the
nominee for Treasury secretary, paint a picture of noncompliance
that is more disturbing than his supporters acknowledge. >
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Editorial: More Questions for Mr. Geithner
townhall.com - 1/15/2009
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townhall.com —
Flying back to California from D.C. last night
on Jet Blue I watched a few hours of
the panels on the financial stations chewing over the dispiriting retail news from December, the illness of Steve Jobs, the vote today on the second release of the ...
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Hugh Hewitt: Confirm Geithner; Approve The TARP Funds, ...
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$43,000 In Unpaid Taxes Is A Common Occurence?
Say Anything —
... Michelle Malkin rips into the hypocrisy surrounding the revelations of Obama Treasury nominee Tim Geithner’s unpaid taxes: ...
WHY GEITHNER HAS GOT TO GO
Right Wing Nut House —
... urgent efforts to revive the economy. Several Republicans agreed that Geithner would get Senate approval and said their party had little appetite for a partisan fight at a precarious time for the economy. GOP opponents of Geithner should “think this through,” said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah., a member of the Senate Finance Committee that’s considering his nomination. “They’re not going to get anybody better than him from this administration for treasury secretary.” GOP Senators won’t make a stink because the issue of Geithner’s taxes isn’t on the radar. And the reason its ...
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Geithner, “tax goofs,” and the go-along GOP - A Column By Michelle Malkin
There’s an old saying from the bowels of the Beltway bureaucracy: “Screw up, move up.” Rewarding failure is an immutable trait of ...
Geithner Watch: Little Republican Opposition
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... my colleagues on the Republican side, and I haven’t talked to all of them … I have not found people who are going to vote against him based upon just the income tax issue,” Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa told National Public Radio in an interview.
He said there was bipartisan agreement on Geithner’s qualifications for the job and the need for someone of his caliber “at a time when we have all the economic problems we have.”
As Michelle Malkin (rightfully) says: Screw up, move up: It’s the Washington way. ...
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