{"id":188615,"date":"2010-08-24T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/24\/i-hate-it-when-a-complete-asshole-agrees-with-me\/"},"modified":"2010-08-24T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T00:03:00","slug":"i-hate-it-when-a-complete-asshole-agrees-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/24\/i-hate-it-when-a-complete-asshole-agrees-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate It When a Complete Asshole Agrees with Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-24\/republican-boehner-calls-on-obama-to-fire-u-s-treasury-secretary-geithner.html\">House Minority leader John Boehner calling for Tim Geithner to be fired<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">U.S. House Republican leader John Boehner called on President Barack Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the other remaining members of the president\u2019s economic team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">In a speech today to the City Club of Cleveland, Boehner said Obama\u2019s stimulus policies are failing to create jobs.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would make me wonder about whether I was being too tough on Timothy &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Geithner, but I am <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/38832164\">reassured by the words of this guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[MSNBC Commentator Jim] <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Cramer during Tuesday\u2019s Stop Trading! took issue with comments from a key House Republican, who called on President Obama to fire his economic team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio said during a speech in Cleveland that the president should get rid of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House economic adviser Larry Summers for starters. But Cramer stepped in to defend Geithner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Boehner\u2019s comments were \u201coutrageous,\u201d the &#8220;Mad Money&#8221; host said. \u201cGeithner\u2019s done a remarkable job.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I am troubled that I agree with John Boehner on this, I am reassured that I am still on the other side of the issue from Jim Cramer.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=jim+cramer\">showed just what Cramer&#8217;s opinions are worth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, House Minority leader John Boehner calling for Tim Geithner to be fired: U.S. House Republican leader John Boehner called on President Barack Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the other remaining members of the president\u2019s economic team. In a speech today to the City Club of Cleveland, Boehner said Obama\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,973,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-economy","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188615"}],"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=188615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}