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Eek, would you want to be locked in a room getting yelled at by Henry Waxman for hours and hours? Because that is how Tim Geithner got to spend his Monday night, hooray! He has the worst job in America, worse even than those people who clean up murder scenes or give Rush Limbaugh enemas.
A meeting that ran “late into the night” featured a bunch of angry Democrats screaming at Tim Geithner about how he wasn’t fixing the economy fast enough. He explained that these things take time, world’s biggest economy blah blah blah, plus he has nobody to help him.
(Speaking of, faithful tipster Karl Rove Jr. — we assume that is his real name, of course — suggests Geithner hire the delightful Simon Johnson, who was on Fresh Air recently making all kinds of sense about bank nationalization. We heartily second this suggestion, except that Geithner would never in a million zillion years hire some dude who wants to nationalize the banks.)
Anyway, so. Tim Geithner will probably quit or just die of a heart attack soon because jesus christ, what an awful job.
Geithner Briefs Dems: “We’re Doing In Weeks What Countries Did In Years” [Huffington Post]
Haha. I wonder if he could see the blizzard of harshly worded memos being thrown at him. That group of impotent, moronic buffoons in congress couldn’t organize a weenie roast.
Mr. Geithner, the Klingon Navy is on line three. They’d like their forehead prothesis back.
Tim, Tim, grow a pair….just tell Waxman to jes’ fix it hisself if he don’t like it….
Drat - too quick at the mouse! PROSTHESIS, I meant.
The American people were mislead by Mr. Geithner! We thought his giant five-head suggested a giant brain with which to lead us out of a global recession, not a giant forehead that wrinkles in befuddlement.
The words “Rush Limbaugh” and “enemas” should never NEVER be in the same sentence together. Ever.
Tim should hire a young Suge Knight-type to be his personal assistant. These meetings would probably go more smoothly.
Tim has been spending about 75% of his work days blogging, and I’m OK with that.
…he shouldve just declared “Executive Privilege” and told them to f%ck-off!
So, which is worse: being yelled at by for hours by Henry Waxman or giving Rush Limbaugh an enema? Your article fails to address this crucial question.
cal: Especially side-by-side with no words in between.
But let us not forget:
Geithner is willing to go into the Democrats’ den and take their comments/abuse/shit/whatev…
Leader Limbaugh hides in a Florida studio and throws shit against the glass.
Who has more balls, I ask you?
Soon Raygun will swoop down from the heavens on a fat steed. He will spread sparkly fairy dust as the hovers over the masses saying “Hi there mommies, just thought I’d help with more free market unregulation! I hath spake with Wall St. and teh Bankerz and they sayeth greed is the only way out of the wilderness.” Then the Limpbaws, Gingriches, and Palins didst clap like giddy children saying “See we wuz right, socialistas!” And lo, the bootstraps already made low, waiteth to be pulled up and there was evening and morning, the second month.
Ingredients for a Limbaugh Enema™
Limbaugh urine
Old Folgers coffee
400 mg Oxycontin
200mg Viagra
Blood from a 14 year old virgin Republican Boy
One Hungry Man TeeVee dinner
Tobacco chew spit
Tabasco sauce
Salt and pepper to taste.
All I can say is: Dinga dinga dee!
Maybe Mr. Geithner should apply for a job giving Rush his enemas.
Nationalize ‘em. All the economists worth listening to say so. Hell, Jim Baker says so. Besides, the resulting head explosions in the wingnutosphere would make it worthwhile for that alone.
A young Peter MacNicol from Dragonslayer (?) called, he wants his several hundred billion dollars you threw down the shitter to buy toxic assets back.
Geithner just gave $50 billion of your money to the fucking Euros . Without so much as a by-your-leave, or disclosure over who’s getting the money. (cough cough Goldman).
I bet he’s not overly concerned over who’s yelling at him. If I got yelled at for giving billions of taxpayer dollars away, I’d feel really bad. And give them billions again tomorrow, because, hey, why not?
snideinplainsight: We got it…dont worry, maybe we have a few Eng. Lit majors who would chastise you for the mis spelling….Funny nontheless!
They also serve who take the most shit. “BLAH BLAH BE BRILLIANT FASTER BLEE!”
I’m all for nationalizing the banks just as long as I get to go to those swanky parties the banks throw too
why can’t anybody besides this simon johnson fellow make any sense?
Capital gains tax cuts and Scarlett Johannson’s gonorrheic boobies. I forget what the question was, but that’s most certainly the answer.
DoctorCulturae: Which horseman of the apocalypse is he? And who are the others?
WickedWitch: That is because Geithner is a confirmed Cabinet secretary in a presidential administration, and Rush Limbaugh has no responsibilities, as drinking the heroin-laced blood of Thai boys is actually a privilege.
cal: I take it, then, you’ve never heard Bill Hicks on Rush Limbaugh?
And then i ram my ovidepositer down your throat and lay my eggs in your chest . . . but im not an alien!
Barney Frank was there also. I guarantee if Barney threatened to strip down, Timmy would think of a solution muy pronto. He just needs the right incentive; Barry is obviously too nice.
Ha! How is he supposed to save the economy when he’s testifying before Congress all the time?
I just the heard the little boy I used to take to Mariner games is doing press for Tim. My little pal is all growed up to be a big cheese who doesn’t know much about economics, but is great with communicating in the English language. Maybe he can make sense of what Geitner is saying and explain it to the rest of us.
snideinplainsight: Maybe the US could make some spare change renting out billboard across Geitner’s forehead.
I hear he still gets royalties from Clapton’s “Foreheaded Man.” Inside musician joke. Sorry.