Another Scam with a New Leader?

Neil Cavuto, Managing Editor & Anchor
FOXBusiness


Tim Geithner gets a grilling on the taxes he didn't pay.

And not nearly so much on failed financial rescues for which "we" continue to pay.

Welcome, everybody, I’m Neil Cavuto and here's the deal:

Tim Geithner will be Treasury secretary of the United States.

Not because charges of sloppy book-keeping aren't serious.

But because this financial crisis is.

Yet at his Senate confirmation hearing today, mister Geithner got more of a pummeling on "his" books than how he's helped handled the "nation's" books.

He wasn't in charge of those books, mind you, but at the very least, he was a co-author.

A co-signee, if you will, on financial rescues that didn't rescue, and bailouts that themselves had to be bailed out.

I'd have liked to hear more on how he botched those numbers than bungled his own numbers.

Some senators would carp about tarp, but few asked how Mr. Geithner would avoid another lark "with" TARP.

And all because fear grips us and gosh, Tim knows this stuff.

He's smart. And seasoned. And ready.

Just like Robert McNamara, who led us into Vietnam and couldn't get us out.

And Don Rumsfeld, who led us into an Iraq without a plan "to" get out.

So i'm trying to figure this obsession with brainiacs out.

Taking nothing away from how smart they are.

But how dumb maybe "we" are.

Too intimidated to think maybe they aren't so smart.

Especially when we all can clearly see the fallout of a financial rescue.

And assess it for what it really is.

Dumb.


My personal opinion:
I believe that when you weed out all the Obama hoopla, you will unfortunately have the same financial malfeasance but with a different crew. Neil is correct in why are we "buying the farm" all over again? Another story is the selection of Eric Holder as Attorney General which will put our country at risk for terrorism.
Go Placidly,
Dan Miller