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2009-01-27 Home Front: Politix
Senate confirms Geithner as Treasury chief
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Posted by Fred 2009-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 Thats one useless senate.
Posted by newc">newc  2009-01-27 04:45||   2009-01-27 04:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Yup. Nine Repubs voted 'yea'. They had a couple Dems vote no, so if enough Repubs had held they could have filibustered.

Geithner is a snob and shouldn't have the job.
Posted by Steve White 2009-01-27 08:01||   2009-01-27 08:01|| Front Page Top

#3 He can't run Turbotax, but he can run the U.S. Treasury.
Posted by Fred 2009-01-27 08:06||   2009-01-27 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 He has 'people'.
Posted by lotp 2009-01-27 08:19||   2009-01-27 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I think the Senate Republicans that voted to confirm were worried that if he was rejected Obama might appoint a much worse candidate.
Posted by mhw 2009-01-27 08:29||   2009-01-27 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 The names and votes listed below clearly highlight the problem with the Republican party:

Bond (R), Not Voting, Montana
Crapo (R), Yes, Illinois
Corker (R), Yes, Texas
Ensign (R), Yes, New Hampshire
Graham (R), Yes, South Carolina
Gregg (R), Yes, New Jersey
Hatch (R), Yes, Vermont
Shelby (R), Yes, Alabama
Snowe (R), Yes, Maryland
Voinovich (R), Yes, Oklahoma

Lieberman (I), Yes, Delaware
(Graham and Lieberman both voted opposite their "big pal" Senator John McCain)


Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-27 08:56||   2009-01-27 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Will "honest mistake" be the motto of this administration?
Posted by tu3031 2009-01-27 09:29||   2009-01-27 09:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Lieberman is (I) Connecticut.

Not Delaware.
Posted by Pappy 2009-01-27 09:34||   2009-01-27 09:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Voinovich is Ohio, not Oklahoma.

Oklahoma's senators are Coburn and Inhofe
Posted by badanov 2009-01-27 09:39|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org]  2009-01-27 09:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks for the corrections.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-27 09:42||   2009-01-27 09:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Back-stabbing and double-dealing in the Senate is nothing new .

Bob Woodward implied there's a lot more 'issues' of this type pending with the new adminstration.
Posted by Pappy 2009-01-27 09:56||   2009-01-27 09:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Kansas Senators vote no. Thank you Brownback and Roberts.
Posted by bman 2009-01-27 11:23||   2009-01-27 11:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Scum is rising to the top of the cesspool of government.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-01-27 11:47||   2009-01-27 11:47|| Front Page Top

#14 If Snarlin' Arlen Specter could figure this one out, nobody has an excuse. I'm especially shocked by Hatch (Utah) and Shelby. Some people shopuld be more concerned about their primaries.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-01-27 11:58||   2009-01-27 11:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Who said this...

“Had [Geithner] not been nominated for Treasury secretary, it’s doubtful that he would have ever paid these taxes.”

The Exalted Cyclops himself.
If senile, old Bobby Byrd even realizes it, then what's wrong with the rest of them?
Posted by tu3031 2009-01-27 12:08||   2009-01-27 12:08|| Front Page Top

#16 He'll get along just fine with Charley Rangel.
Posted by DMFD 2009-01-27 12:14||   2009-01-27 12:14|| Front Page Top

#17 Corker (R), Yes, Texas

Don't you mean Cornyn? Where did this info come from?
Posted by Spusosh the Prolific6862 2009-01-27 12:47||   2009-01-27 12:47|| Front Page Top

#18 Yes it is Cornyn, thanks. Correct US Senate DATA.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-27 13:08||   2009-01-27 13:08|| Front Page Top

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