Senate confirms Timothy Geithner for treasury secretary
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Under normal circumstances, failing to pay your taxes is a surefire way to torpedo your nomination to a Cabinet position.
But the race to halt the economic slide before the midterm elections in 2010 is so tight that President Barack Obama's choice for treasury secretary, New York Federal Reserve Bank chief Timothy Geithner, is got a pass on his tax troubles from the president and most senators, Democrats and Republicans.
Obama believes Geithner has made amends — he has paid the taxes and penalities — and possesses the talent the U.S. needs, his spokesman said.
"Secretary-designate Geithner ... admitted that he'd made honest mistakes that could and should have been avoided," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
The Senate voted 60-34 to confirm Geithner.
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magnus_b
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wow, you're very literary...asshole
- 3 years ago
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magnus_b
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courage
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change and hope folks try not to choke or puke
- 3 years ago
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courage
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TonyDukes
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What a hypcosy, would be like making Ted Kennedy head of MADD. Only in DC only from the left. What a double standard, expect more from the new pres, re:gitmo and bailing out Bank Am, back in the gun control biz etc. Endowing the proven thiefs and unaccoutables and letting ineffective govt figures run our lives.
- 3 years ago
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TonyDukes
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magnus_b
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FOREBODING TIMES
Flock of Birds darken sky
foreboding thoughts, and I ask why.
I raise my eyes, find darkness bleak,
This country ours, has grown quite weak.
I wonder when we'll make a stand,
wrest our land from silver-spoon hand.
I wonder if again truth shall reign,
silver-spoon-fed-folk feel not our pain.
Corrupt ones rule this land we loved,
into corner common folk shoved;
for oil black our young men die,
illusions fed us, for them we cry;
for loot they strive, and fight for Power,
while in fine Mansion's our leaders cower.
The rich get richer, while strive we must,
and Politician's ours make fools of us.
It's not too late to make a stand,
wrest power from corrupt one's hand;
as did founding Father's in days of old,
let's take a stand, we must be bold;
'gainst English Tyrant Forefather's strived,
their blood, spilled, countless brave men died.
We stand not for blood revolt,
for freedom gained, we can not halt;
Bold boys' blood in Iraq is spilled,
far too many ours have been killed;
for reasons, vain, not noble 't'all,
riddle me that, you stop the fall. - 3 years ago
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magnus_b
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cool0ne
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W T F !!!!
If i didn't pay my taxes i would be in court, and had my all of my bank account funds or wages seized by the IRS!!!!
And this guy gets a job... LOL
- 3 years ago
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cool0ne
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samthesixth
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Maybe now we can go to the fair tax or some other simple system as the new head of the treasury department (which runs the IRS) couldn't comply with the difficult tax code and pay his own taxes on time.
- 3 years ago
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samthesixth
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1percent
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Project Mayhem is well underway.
Fallaces sunt rerum species
Libertas inaestimabilis res est
Pareo Nullus
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1percent
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cerealforeal
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Now it's definite, brace for a depression.
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cerealforeal
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Nealeigh
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Action-packed staff.
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Nealeigh
