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Boehner Calls For Resignation Of Geithner, Summers

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Obama Administration
Posted on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:27:12 AM EST
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"President Obama should ask for -- and accept -- the resignations of the remaining members of his economic team, starting with Secretary Geithner and Larry Summers," Boehner (R., Ohio) said in an economic address to the City Club of Cleveland.

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    Boehner Calls For Resignation Of Geithner, Summers | 30 comments (30 topical)

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    Controlling the Center (5.00 / 3) (#1)
    by squeaky on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:36:26 AM EST
    Dastardly move..

    Fire the morons and the GOP wins, keep the morons and the GOP wins...

    Yeah, if I thought it would mean a (none / 0) (#17)
    by ruffian on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 12:00:15 PM EST
    real clean slate do-over I would be all for it. but now it is just a lose-lose. the replacements are not going to pass another stimulus or get cram down legislation any kore than Geithner and Summers did.

    I say have them resign next year, not in response to anything Boehner says.

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    You can't dilly dally... (5.00 / 3) (#23)
    by kdog on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 01:26:43 PM EST
    on doing what is necessary just because some a-hole Republican mentioned it...I say get that resignation or start the fraud investigations.

    Then nominate Elizabeth Warren to replace Geithner and tell the Republicans they asked for the resignation, and to approve her post-haste cuz we got Geithner's mess to fix:)

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    Yeah, I'm sure they will nominate E. Warren... (none / 0) (#24)
    by ruffian on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 01:52:23 PM EST
    NOT.

    So I guess it doesn't matter whether Obama or Boehner drive the replacements. I'm not going to like it either way.

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    Ain't that the truth... (none / 0) (#25)
    by kdog on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 02:03:36 PM EST
    replacing one crooked sob with another is pointless.

    I was playing a lil fantasy game where Democrats represent working folks, and Geithner was an honest mistake...now back to our regularly scheduled reality:)

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    LOL (none / 0) (#26)
    by ruffian on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 02:31:28 PM EST
    You have a few years to catch up to my advanced level of cynicism!

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    I can't begin to say... (5.00 / 5) (#2)
    by Romberry on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:36:39 AM EST
    ...how much it pains me to know that Boehner agrees with me on something. Boehner and I surely come at this from differing angles, but the final result is the same. Geithner and Summers need to go. Of course laying the blame on Geithner and Summers isn't necessarily fair. After all, they have a boss...

    It Does Not Pain Me At All (5.00 / 2) (#18)
    by msaroff on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 12:05:32 PM EST
    Boehner's idea is to create the appearance, and perhaps the reality of Obama's economic team being in disarray before the elections, so he wants them fired.

    You and I want Geithner and Summers fired because we believe that Obama's economic team, and policies, have already screwed the proverbial pooch.

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    Is he wrong? (5.00 / 4) (#3)
    by Edger on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:37:33 AM EST
    No.

    Just his reasons are wrong.

    One side lies, the other doesn't tell the truth (5.00 / 4) (#5)
    by lambertstrether on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:46:32 AM EST
    And both legacy parties need to go.

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    There are two parties? (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by Edger on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:50:21 AM EST
    I don't know about that. That sounds like a lie to me. ;-)

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    Certainly (5.00 / 5) (#15)
    by hookfan on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 11:13:54 AM EST
    but there is only one dance. . .

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    In a month or so, both should (5.00 / 2) (#6)
    by MO Blue on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:47:16 AM EST
    find an urgent and immediate need to "spend more time with their families."

    At least HCR was a massive (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by observed on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 11:01:04 AM EST
    success.

    Especially politically . . . (5.00 / 0) (#11)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 11:02:44 AM EST


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    That is sarcasm, right? (none / 0) (#14)
    by jbindc on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 11:07:34 AM EST


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    merely changing a few (5.00 / 3) (#12)
    by cpinva on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 11:04:58 AM EST
    members of the team won't change the overall climate in the locker room. it's the coach who establishes the standards. until such time as obama decides he actually won in 2008, and actually has a sufficient majority in congress (or whatever the heck his problem is), nothing else will change.

    so sure, go ahead and fire them all, but it won't make any difference, until obama himself changes.

    Maybe this is the time (5.00 / 3) (#16)
    by KeysDan on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 11:45:43 AM EST
    for President Obama to reach out, be bipartisan and take some of those good Republican ideas.

    I hate it when I agree with Boehner (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by Gisleson on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 12:30:08 PM EST
    but I think I've held that opinion longer than he has.

    Well, if Summers is thinking of resigning, I hope (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by steviez314 on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 01:14:06 PM EST
    he doesn't pull a Rumsfeld and do it the day AFTER the election.

    If he and Geitner are still on Obama's team (4.00 / 1) (#22)
    by Buckeye on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 01:19:15 PM EST
    through 2012, he may not have to resign to lose his job.

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    He's also calling (none / 0) (#4)
    by TomStewart on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:43:36 AM EST
    for a return to the Bush economic policies and tax cuts. He claimed Clinton would ruin the economy, Bush would be a boon, and Obama would kill it. The question should be, is he ever right?

    About Geithner and Summers, yes I think they should go, but not for the petty political points Boehner wants to make.

    And yet, and yet (5.00 / 3) (#7)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:47:38 AM EST
    Geithner and Summers failed.

    The stimulus was too small and HAMP was a disaster.

    And guess who gets to call for their firing?

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    Capitalism failed (shocked disbelief ensues). (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by Compound F on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 11:05:42 AM EST
    That's a lot of pink slips.

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    Capitalism did not fail (none / 0) (#19)
    by Buckeye on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 12:26:31 PM EST
    Excessive Freidmanism failed.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01stockman.html?_r=1&exprod=myyahoo

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    Well, the economy actually was better... (none / 0) (#28)
    by lambert on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 08:47:24 PM EST
    ... under Bush, right? Granted, that's like saying leukemia is better than lung cancer, but still...

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    I dunno (none / 0) (#9)
    by CST on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:50:49 AM EST
    they make convenient whipping boys but I'm not convinced they are the real problem.  Ultimately the buck stops at the top.

    Personally I'm more concerned with Rahm as he appears to have greater influence.

    Rahm is the top? (none / 0) (#29)
    by lambert on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 08:47:57 PM EST
    Good to know.

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    heh (none / 0) (#30)
    by CST on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 09:07:51 AM EST
    touche.

    Although Rahm has influence over congress = leverage.

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    Too much spray tan can break your watch (none / 0) (#27)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 04:50:56 PM EST
    but it will still be right twice a day :)  Wow, I was gone all day long and stuff I like happened.  Truly, if Obama only ever takes the Right seriously......thank you Mr. Boehner.

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