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From NBC's Ken Strickland Treasury Secretary nominee Tim
Geithner , the president and chief executive officer of...
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, filed his own taxes using Turbo Tax during the period he neglected to pay thousands of dollars ...
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Geithner filed own taxes
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Susan Collins: I can’t vote for a tax cheat for Treasury secretary
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... himself with this: Hatch closed by saying that there is a double standard for nominations, and Geithner is benefiting from it. If a Republican nominee had Geithner’s tax record, Hatch said, he or she would have been attacked by Democrats and the media, and “the president would have had no choice other than to withdraw the nomination.” “A Republican nominee in Mr. Geithner’s position would not have even gotten a committee vote,” Hatch said. The boss thinks this should be an obvious party-line no vote , and after some rumination, I agree. We have to pick our spots in opposing ...
Senate Confirms Geithner
Patterico's Pontifications —
Timothy “TurboTax” Geithner has been confirmed on a 60-38 vote to be the Treasury Secretary.
Michelle Malkin lists the 10 Republicans who voted for a guy who didn’t pay taxes he certainly knew he owed . . . until he was nominated to be the guy who handles hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars.
I sure hope he doesn’t use “TurboBailout.”
(Joke shamelessly stolen from commenter Pablo.)
Rush Limbaugh Fills GOP's Leadership Void
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney —
... In 2009, there is also a promising roster of future GOP leaders, but those currently in charge are absolutely hopeless. Afraid of the Obamist Regime, they have stood by and watched as a tax cheat is confirmed as Treasury Secretary. Though they won't step aside, they don't appear to have the political will to contest any of Obama's reckless moves. Could it be any worse than this? ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 1/22/2009 — I'll have a story up in a few hours on today's Timothy Geithner hearing. There's a lot of action going on tonight in the Geithner matter, all of it happening under a tight deadline of tomorrow morning as Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus jams the ...
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dcexaminer.com 1/16/2009 — Examiner Editorial - 1/16/09 Timothy Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama s nominee for Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, didn t pay his federal self-employment taxes for four years because he forgot. That is no longer a credible explanation in view ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 1/19/2009 — I have a new story on what is, for some senators at least, the most frustrating thing about Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner's tax problem: Geithner can't explain why he did it.
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Why Are the Media Protecting Geithner?
aim.org 1/18/2009 — AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | January 14, 2009 The Obama Transition Project says that Timothy Geithner, its Chinese-speaking Treasury Secretary nominee, made honest mistakes on his tax returns. This line comes from the same group that is telling us ...
Why Markets Don't Like the Geithner Plan
corner.nationalreview.com 2/10/2009 — Markets have reacted negatively to the Geithner plan, with equities falling and the three barometers of risk aversion all worsening -- the yen strengthened, gold rose, and Treasury yields fell. This reflects several broad disappointments with the ...
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