Well, he’s not a banker.
“I’m a lawyer and you’re a banker,” Silvers said at one point during a disagreement over the way the public’s exposure to risk was being presented in a chart.
Geithner interrupted: “I’ve always been in public service,” he said. Silvers went on, “But you were a banker.”
“I’ve never been a banker,” Geithner said.
He’s not a lawyer.
I’m not an attorney, Congressman, so it would be hard for me to say.
He’s not a regulator.
Ron Paul: “Well…any way. Any time a regulator comes in and says you’re guilty of something Why doesn’t the government have to prove he’s guilty? Why can’t we assume…”
Geithner: “Is that a criminal violation… or?”
Ron Paul: “Civil or criminal. Why not? I mean that’s a principle that’s been around for more than 1000 years, at least 800 years.”
Geithner: “I’m not a regulator nor a lawyer unfortunately, so I’m not sure I can give you an adequate answer to that, but I’d be happy to think about it a little bit and get back to you.
So what the hell is he?
Geithner: I’ve Never Been a Banker [The Wall Street Journal]
A Mason!
A pimp
A highly educated custodian?
He is a sexy shoeless GOD OF WAR!
A comrade.
A ho
He’s Michael Lewis’ small penis.
Jimmy Cayne had a pretty descriptive answer to this question.
An alien. I think I saw him in “Mars Attacks”
he’s a lackey
..for obama
@9 FTW
dad??
Hugo Weaving?
I am not sure:
-Osama’s secret agent
-Bernie’s nephew
-One of BHO’s brother/cousin
-A former GS employee
-PM of the largest HF ever
Rearrange the letters of his name: he is Mr. E. T. Thingie
I would like things that look like elves for $1000 Alex.
I saw him once in a bowl of Lucky Charms, I could sware he was wearing a green outfit.
Simply the product of a very nice JV between GS special sits team and CIA Special Activies Division
We’ve been over this before: He’s the unclaimed spawn of Timothy Blair and Sloth from The Goonies.
A third-rate bureaucrat?
a civil servant. but, thats not a profession its a title.
Client #8 ?
He’s a patsy for the British
-Wildcard bitches!
He’s out of his league.
He is Kaiser Sose.
Geithner’s one of Obama’s hacks
,
chinese fingercuffs
Dresses like a Kilgore, TX, clap doctor.
He is the change we have been waiting for
hes a gadfly or a beltway insider, like vernon jordan
TRB
An investment banker? A Pawn? Definitely not a tax expert. On the subject of his taxes, does anyone think there wasn’t a lawyer behind the scenes telling him to use turbo tax? @4 has it correct. He’s a joke.
I’m not a banker, but I play one on TV
His real name is Tim Noel. He is very elegant
He believes two things: 1. Location, location, location and 2. Buy the worst house in the best neighborhood.
A small woodland creature
He’s Dayman, fighter of the Nightman. A master of karate and friendship for everyone.
Dylan Ratigan’s Cum Dumpster
he is… “the coon”
Timmy’s too modest. He’s all three in one: a regulawanker.
He’s not just a lawyer – he’s unfrozen caveman lawyer. Your modern ways of banking scare and frighten him. The next time he here’s about a synthetic CDS or a defaulting AAA Alt-A, he’s going to run for the hills. He’s just a caveman that fell into some ice 100,000 year ago. . .
He’s a fucking tax cheat.
Any more questions?
future head of Morgan Stanley
@39,
“…and as the economy deteriorated, so did society…Then we elected a black President. He was supposed to change things…He didn’t.”
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Batman
He is Dylan Ratigan’s bruised ego.
Sorry ’bout that computer malfunction.
No, I’m not a Banker Congressman…but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
COLON BLOW!
wow the elusive sexta-post…enjoy it while you can boys…this kind of idiocy only comes around once in a while.
He’s the pimple on Bill Gross’s a$$. That’s who he takes his orders from.
I’d say he’s a weasel, but that would be unkind to real weasels.
A guy who failed completely and totally at both the IMF and the NY Fed. Nice to see we’re in good hands.
There once was a Giethner named Tim
And what do you make of him?
Honest and sharp,
He’ll keep you in TARP
Were he a banker, 10bps he would skim!
#40 gets the win.
trick
@ 9 – Winner.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/03/jimmy_cayne_lets_loose_on_time.html
I miss Jimmy Cayne. He’s probably on Tortola ripping tubes and nom’ing down mcgriddles.
@63- the correct link is: http://dealbreaker.com/2009/03/jimmy-cayne-geithner-got-wood.php
he’s Henry Kissinger’s ex-towel boy!
This has got to be the most hilarious bunch of comments I have EVER read.
I say he is: The Antichrist. Ok, well maybe mini-Antichrist. Or maybe just mini-me?
I vote for #40′s regulawanker. Funny!!
He’s Bill Brasky’s foreskin
someone has to clean up W’s second recession, who would you propose?
He’s a lover, he’s a hater, he’s a young boy bearing arms…
A student of Gono (Zimbabwe’s central banker)?
http://www.pewnews.com/story.asp?sectioncode=44&storycode=46585
He’s hired investment banker types………….
He’s the boss of #2…
He is a hedge fund manager. of the TARP fund. But he is 100% long and levered
Kramer: I was never able to become a banker.
[Newman has a revelation.]
Newman: Banker! So you’re killing yourself because your dreams of becoming a banker have gone unfulfilled. You-you-you-you can’t live without being a banker.
Kramer: Yeah, yeah. If I can’t be banker, I don’t wanna live.
Newman: You must be banker.
Kramer: MUST be banker.
Bawney Frank’s condom
Bawney Fwank’s condom
You ask what Tim Geithner is, do you? He is a public servant.
definitely a bureaucrat.
maybe not the hero we want……. but the hero we need.
Beeper King
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/03/what_will_the_beeper_kings_new.html
He’s been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.
He’s been up and down and over and out; he knows one thing: each time he finds himself flat on his face, he picks himself up and gets back in the race.
That’s Turbo Tax Tim. Just a Turbo Tax man in a Turbo Tax land doing his Turbo Tax thing. Leave him alone.
He’s a clueless tool.
39 and 42. Rock on.
Tim is… what an apathetic and fat American populace deserves.
The most uninteresting man in the world
I’ve met him. He is much better than that idiot Paulson.
There is an idea of a Tim Geithner; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real Tim Geithner: only an entity, something illusory.
Shoeshine boy or caddy, take your pick.
I love the tough tone with Sununu. Yeah, Timmy, you’re a real bad-ass against ex-Senators.
@87 – Somewhere, out there, there is a true Tim Geithner form. We haven’t seen that form yet except as a shadow on the wall of a cave….
He is Wesley Mouch. (Atlas Shrugged reference)
Wesley Mouch
A member of the Looters and, at the beginning of the storyline, the incompetent lobbyist whom Hank Rearden reluctantly employs in Washington. Initially Wesley Mouch is the least powerful and least significant of the Looters – the other members of this group feel they can look down upon him with impunity. Eventually he becomes the most powerful Looter, and the country’s economic dictator, thereby illustrating Rand’s belief that a government-run economy places too much power in the hands of incompetent bureaucrats who would never have positions of similar influence in a private sector business. His name, appropriately, is evocative of the word “mooch,” his modus operandi
A spineless jellyfish
He’s from South Park.
TIMMY!
Little Timmy is Hank Paulson’s disowned son.
He’s a douche. He might even be santorum. But he’s for sure a douche.
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