{"id":184767,"date":"2012-01-25T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/25\/only-about-2%c2%bd-years-late\/"},"modified":"2012-01-25T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:31:00","slug":"only-about-2%c2%bd-years-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/25\/only-about-2%c2%bd-years-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Only About 2\u00bd Years Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Geithner has pretty much said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-01-25\/geithner-doesn-t-expect-obama-to-ask-him-to-stay-if-he-wins-re-election.html\">he won&#8217;t serve in Obama&#8217;s next term<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, the last remaining member of the Obama administration\u2019s original economic team, said he doesn\u2019t expect the president to ask him to stay in office if re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not going to ask me to stay on, I\u2019m pretty confident,\u201d Geithner said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today. \u201cI\u2019m confident he\u2019ll be president. But I\u2019m also confident he\u2019s going to have the privilege of having another secretary of the Treasury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geithner, 50, has led President Barack Obama\u2019s efforts to pull the U.S. economy out of the worst recession since World War II, including overseeing bailouts of automakers General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC, which have since emerged from bankruptcy. Before joining the administration in 2009, Geithner was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, playing a key role in the government\u2019s rescue packages for banks including Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, after completely f%$#ing the economy, the financial system, and the Democratic Party, through your relentless ass kissing of Wall Street, I guess that your work is done.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted though, the Cossacks work for the Czar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Geithner has pretty much said that he won&#8217;t serve in Obama&#8217;s next term: Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, the last remaining member of the Obama administration\u2019s original economic team, said he doesn\u2019t expect the president to ask him to stay in office if re-elected. \u201cHe\u2019s not going to ask me to stay on, I\u2019m &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,985,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-regulation","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}