From the AP:
The Senate has confirmed New York Fed chief Timothy Geithner to be President Barack Obama’s secretary of the treasury.The 60-34 vote puts Geithner at the helm of Obama’s plan to rescue the economy from the worst financial crisis in three generations. It also dislodges one of Obama’s most troubled nominations.
Some senators were concerned that Geithner, who would oversee the Internal Revenue Service, did not pay all of taxes until he had been tapped to the president’s Cabinet. Geithner called it an unintentional oversight and settled his $34,000 overdue tax bill.
It’s certainly no shocker that he was confirmed. Geithner probably really was trying to cheat on his taxes, but in the grand scheme of things I’m really not all that concerned about him. Eric Holder’s nomination for AG is the one that keeps me up at night. He’s going to be total disaster for our intelligence community and the entire War on Terror. The Clinton era mindset of treating terrorism as a law enforcement matter got us to 9/11 so we changed approach and have prevented further attacks.
A little more than seven years later history is repeating itself once more. The DOJ is being stuffed with clueless Clinton cronies who don’t understand that we’re at war.
One step forward — two steps back.
