The Capital For 10/19/09: Geithner, Feeling Heat, Points The Finger At Cheney Administration

In the last few days, Progressive Congressional figures in the House have placed a lot of heat on Tim Geithner for basically favoring Wall Street over Main Street in their opinion.

Peter DeFazio is the leader in all of this


Today though, instead of being able to address rational people like DeFazio, Geithner had to get into a shouting match with an idiot like Kevin Brady today.

In a fiery exchange at Thursday's Joint Economic Committee hearing with ranking Republican Kevin Brady (Texas), who suggested that Geithner had "failed" and should reconsider his job, the Treasury secretary asserted that he and his team had made great strides bringing the economy back from "the brink."

"I agree with almost nothing of what you said," replied a heated Geithner, charging President George W. Bush's leadership was to blame for the country's financial woes.

"Again, it's just a basic fact: A year ago, this economy was falling at the rate of 6 percent a year. We were losing between half a million and three-quarters of a million jobs a month," he said, noting those numbers changed when President Barack Obama took office.

The annoying narrative of Geithner getting attacked by both sides instead of why he is getting attacked by both will be talked about in the "neutral" corporate media.

The rational (which are the Progressives here) have every right to complain on this, because they are representing Main Street here and see it getting by passed again here. Then you have the irrational Right, which we all know who they represent of course.