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Tim Geithner and the Return of Moon-Yogurt Accounting

DB07 Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 2:43 PM
The result will be the same, and at least we remove the next 3 1/2 weeks of econ uncertainty. That's hurting America now.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has had a rough few days.  Late last week, Sen. Mitch McConnell laughed in his face when he presented President Obama's breathtaking fiscal cliff "deal" -- which raises taxes by $1.6 trillion, abolishes the debt limit (!), spends tens of billions on a new stimulus (!!), and offers no specific or guaranteed spending reductions to speak of.  Then Geithner appeared on Fox News Sunday to defend the proposal, and things went...not so well.  When host Chris Wallace pilloried his claim of illusory "savings" on war spending, Geithner was flummoxed (via

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