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President-elect Barack Obama with his choice for Treasury
secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, in Washington early this month....
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republicanleader.house.gov - 1/28/2009
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No Tax Increases to Pay for Spending: The
congressional Democrats’ spending plan includes record levels of government...
projects and programs that will substantially increase the current deficit, without spurring a rapid economic recovery, according to ...
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Boehner Statement on House Republicans’ Economic ...
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Thank You, Republicans, for Our New Treasury Secretary, Fraudy McTaxCheat
The Sundries Shack —
... Republicans who threw their principles into the toilet and flushed hard. Timothy Geithner is not the only man who can help pull us out of our financial woes and if it took us another couple of weeks to find someone who is as qualified and who hasn’t cheated on his taxes, then we can wait. We’re not going to get so bad in a couple of weeks that we can’t recover. So far as I’m concerned, the ten Republicans who voted to confirm Geithner have given up any claim to conservative support. Michelle Malkin has the full roll call vote . Here is the list of the ten Senators who should ...
GOP for Tax Cheats Running IRS
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] For the record (with thanks to Michelle Malkin ), here are the ten Republican senators who think it is just fine to have a guy who violates the tax laws policing how American citizens comply with the tax laws an incongruity we should overlook because Geithner's done such a great job so far addressing the financial melt-down: Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) Ensign (R-NV) Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Hatch (R-UT) Shelby (R-AL) Snowe (R-ME) Voinovich (R-OH) On to the stimulus package! ...
'Tax Cheat Tim' Geithner and the End of Post-Partisanship
Weekly Standard Blog —
... But, if anything, this vote shows that Republicans are pretty weak partisans. One of the 10 GOP senators to vote for Geithner was John Cornyn--the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the GOP's Senate campaign arm. Apparently, Cornyn believed he had to give Geithner the " ...
In Defense Of Sen. John Cornyn
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE —
... One of the 10 GOP senators to vote for Geithner was John Cornyn--the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the GOP's Senate campaign arm. Apparently, Cornyn believed he had to give Geithner the " ...
1/27: A Stimulating Debate
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Conservative bloggers ( Malkin , McCarthy , Huston , Erickson ) are blasting the ten GOP Senators who voted to confirm NY Fed Chair Timothy Geithner as Treasury Sec. Liberal bloggers ( Kurtz , Beeton , Waldman ) are buzzing about the news that House Judiciary Cmte Chair John Conyers (D-MI) subpoenaed ex-WH adviser Karl Rove to testify about the U.S. atty scandal and the George W. Bush admin.'s prosecution of ex-AL Gov. Don Siegelman .
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