{"id":190474,"date":"2009-11-21T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/21\/calls-for-timmy-to-be-fired\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T02:37:00","slug":"calls-for-timmy-to-be-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/21\/calls-for-timmy-to-be-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for Timmy to be Fired."},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/embed><\/a><\/object>Congressman Peter DeFasio Calls for “Timmy” Geithner to be fired.<\/p>\n

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Also coming from right wing ‘Phant Kevin Brady<\/span><\/div>\n

Representative Peter DeFasio (D-OR-4) has now explicitly called for Barack Obama to fire Timothy Geithner<\/a>, though you will note in the video (top) that he calls him “Timmy” (at about 1:35), which I think is a very deliberate slight<\/span>.<\/p>\n

And, according to The Hill<\/a>, that removing him, as well as Larry Summers, is now the consensus position for the Congressional Populist Caucus (CPC).<\/p>\n

We are also seeing similar calls from the right wingers in the Republican Party too<\/a>, note the calls made to Geithner’s face by Texas whack-doodle Kevin Brady (R-TX-8).<\/p>\n

Of note, it appears that Brady’s accusation actually got under Geither’s skin (bottom video).<\/p>\n

When Brady brought up his performance as President of the New York Bank of the Federal Reserve, and suggested that his performance there was sub-par, it’s clear that Geithner was irate at this suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click for full size Congressman Peter DeFasio Calls for “Timmy” Geithner to be fired. Also coming from right wing ‘Phant Kevin Brady Representative Peter DeFasio (D-OR-4) has now explicitly called for Barack Obama to fire Timothy Geithner, though you will note in the video (top) that he calls him “Timmy” (at about 1:35), which I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,973,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-economy","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190474"}],"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=190474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}