Earlier this morning, during Tim Geithner's appearance on the Hill to discuss the Obama administration's plan to overhaul financial regulations, Senator Corker referred to Timbo as "Mr. Chairman." Geithner responded, "I'm not 'Mr. Chairman.' Yet." Because we are prone to giant leaps in logic, making mountains out of molehills, and going to a place in our minds where Bernanke is a thug who will potentially make those who tick him off pay, we suggested that T. Geith was angling for B-nanke's job, had overstepped his bounds, and ought to watch his back.* Apparently, that wasn't what Geithner meant. We've just received an e-mail from the Treasury, clarifying the Secretary's line of thinking/sense of humor.
Bess,To clarify your post regarding the Treasury Secretary's remark: He was, of course, referring to the Financial Services Oversight Council (he isn't chair yet because it hasn't been created yet.)
Thank you for posting a correction,
Meg
Meg ReillyOffice of Public Affairs
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Now you know. Also, I put in a request for an interview with TG, so fingers crossed there.
*Also, it's a slow news day and we needed a post.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:37PM
these are our tax dollars at work.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:39PM
too bad the treasury cannot comment as quickly on the 134 billion of "stolen"/"fake"/"real" bonds in Northern Italy.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:40PM
I cannot believe that just happened.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:40PM
Clearly Ms. Reilly is a pathological liar and seeks attention in any way she can get it.
Big Tuna
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:40PM
So, the treasury monitors DB? Thank God I haven't posted the account number of my offshore holdings.
-Joe Kiernan
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:40PM
so basically the treasury reads dealbreaker. good to know when formulating comments.
Posted by merkin capital partners , Jun 18, 2009 12:42PM
she's just pissed because TG keeps posting the ass pounding secretary comments.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:42PM
How does Meg know what Geithner meant? Was this a rehearsed joke?
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 18, 2009 12:43PM
@Merkin FTW ahahaha
awesomeness
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:44PM
linkedin...
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:45PM
Flashy blue thing hurts my eyes.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:46PM
Dealbreaker FTW
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:46PM
Dear Meg,
Please confirm that Tim Geithner is a dickhead.
Love,
Guest
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:47PM
I believe Meg Reilly was searching the web for some tips on anal bleaching and probably stumbled across our humble little blog.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:50PM
incredible
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:51PM
Meg I need a job, can I shoot you a resume?
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:54PM
Wrong, I was totally making a joke at Ben's expense.
-- TG, posting here from my BB
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:55PM
Now thats some douchy clipart you can believe in.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:55PM
if it's a slow news day do a post about this article:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31424052/
Posted by AndrewInGreenwich , Jun 18, 2009 12:55PM
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/meg-reilly/12/378/6
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:55PM
Meg,
I call dibs on being Mr. Chariman of the next council that hasn't been created yet.
Best,
Bald
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:56PM
Didn't she jilt Randy Quaid during filming back when she starred with Russell Crowe in "Proof of Life"?? I didn't know she was working for the Gubmint now.
~Former Lehman Quant
Posted by Lowly Assistant , Jun 18, 2009 12:58PM
Imagining Meg reading through the comments from the previous post made my day. E.g.,
"20 Posted by guest, Jun 18, 2009 12:27PM
Why is there a shark pounding my secretary in the ass with a $5 footlong?"
& this triple play,
"8 Posted by guest, Jun 18, 2009 12:00PM
I miss Bald. Bald and Beard were a great team." --- "10 Posted by guest, Jun 18, 2009 12:01PM
@8- right? they were such a good couple." --- "12 Posted by guest, Jun 18, 2009 12:02PM
@8 any chance they'll get back together?"
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:58PM
Ah Meg. University of Vermont...Sticking up for Timmy...You voted for Obama didn't you?
PS - DB has a question. Do you have a secretary?
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 12:58PM
My first reaction to reading this post was to imagine Bess and Meg rimming each other -- is that wrong?
Posted by Bess Levin , Jun 18, 2009 1:00PM
@19 I would write about that even if it weren't a slow news day.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:00PM
Bernanke and Geithner might as well get married with benefits with the stimulus package!
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:01PM
Do not EVER call me Meg. I have a hot button.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:02PM
I think I need a new IP address. Imagine what NSA is doing.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:04PM
Meg, putting "spokesperson" as your title on Linkedin is like calling yourself an asshole.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:06PM
T. Geith: Her name is Meg, named after Mila Kunis' voice in 'Family Guy'.
Beard: [laughs] Y'all named your public affairs officer after fucking 'Family Guy'?
T. Geith: Barry's favorite tv show.
Beard: [laughs] Wow, you gotta be shittin' me.
[points to the Car Czar]
Beard: What's his name, fuckin' Shrek?
- The Guy with all the EB&D Quotes Today
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:09PM
wow, quite a highbrow conversation we seem to have going here...anyway morons you should be more than just a bit concerned at any new powers the Fed squeezes out of this debacle, after all it is the very same Fed that presided over the crash 1921 and 1929, the Great Depression '29-'39, recessions in '53, '57, '69, '75 and '81, Black Monday in '87 and inflation that has destroyed 90% of the USD purchasing power..and now we want to give them MORE authority over the financial system, way to go.
"Let me issue and control a nations money and I care not who writes the laws"
-Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:10PM
@31- beautiful
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:10PM
@28
This one even tops that.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0609/No_namecalling.html?showall
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:11PM
@32 Please see below:
http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:12PM
This is off topic, but a must read. Utterlly accurate representation of DC:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0609/No_namecalling.html?showall
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:14PM
@36- stfu, we're talking about meg here.
@35- any other conspiracy theory blogs I should be reading?
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:16PM
Two thoughts: Fascinating that you are on a first name basis with The Public Affairs Officer at the Treasury. Further fascinating that the Treasury, despite the rumors about them being wholly understaffed seems to be right on top of some things.
"me thinks he doth protest too much"
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:19PM
@38- reading DB is a priority, understaffed or not.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:19PM
@38 I sense that's just how she signs her emails, and not that she and Bess are BFFs.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:21PM
@38 - You are dumb. Are you a Texican Coke Shark?
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:25PM
Bess, please tell me you addressed her as Megan in the reply.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:26PM
Why do I have bruises and a red hand mark on my ass?
-Meg Reilly
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:29PM
I think I met Meg at an A2M convention a couple of years back.
The Beef Bus
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:31PM
SUPREME WIDECLOPS OVERLORD
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:31PM
"I'm sick and tired of carrying all the weight, the President and the Congress are not giving me the shit I need to fix this financial shit storm. Washington, you're fucking out. Tim Geithner is now a free agent. Let's buy the bar and get shitfaced. Get me paid, bitch!"
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 18, 2009 1:31PM
@19 (re: Ronaldo's super-tight shorts)
""His sense of style has moved men's shorts into an entirely new ball game," said Paul Baldwin, Debenhams' director of buying for menswear."
pun, ftw!
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:34PM
Okay, can we address the best part of this? The post in question was typical of BL's style wherein she takes something that happened and then creates a ridiculous scenario around it (see: everything ever written about Steve Cohen, Charlie Gasparino, etc). And that is what the Treasury is responding to. Awesome.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:36PM
@35, thx interesting (32)
Posted by EvilBuzzard , Jun 18, 2009 1:38PM
You have power, Bess! Great power. Use the juice, shave the Beard!
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:38PM
Geithner was supposed to do another panel today that suspiciously got postponed, says CNBC. Meg, can you tell us what happened?
Posted by EvilBuzzard , Jun 18, 2009 1:39PM
You have power, Bess! Great power. Use the juice, shave the Beard!
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:41PM
@48- exactly.
And the Prez cannot even properly stand behind Democracy in Iran- he is just "exicted about robust debate"
But his surrogates in the Execuitve Branch spend their waking hours trying to look better with the media. 90% of which give The Obama Administration Daily Verbal Blowjobs.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:45PM
Meggs, two points:
1. Replying so quickly is total amateur hour. There's a fine line between zeal and desperation.
2. I'm going to be in Washington next month, should I visit the Smithsonian first, then the White house, or vis-versa.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:46PM
I just sharted in the elevator. I am not exactly sure how to handle the situation.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:50PM
Wow, it looks like Meg has sparked the interest of the bunch of stalkers who comment at this hour.
Hugs, and kisses too.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:51PM
@55 I think AIG used to sell CDS on sharting in 2003-2005 where they would take the heat for it. Good thing I loaded up.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 1:52PM
Bess-
I would keep an eye over your shoulder and don't go home alone tonight. You're fucking around with some scary bitches --
I wouldn't be surpised if you disappear "Taken" style and get sold into sex slavery just to shut you up. And I don't think that Liam Neeson is going to take the time to save your Treasury-hating ass.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:00PM
I'll save you Bess. That Treasury witch aint got nothing on me and my highly trained pack of coked up laser sharks.
Posted by merkin capital partners , Jun 18, 2009 2:16PM
@58 with the Beard as the Arab in the bathrobe at the end.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:22PM
@2
I know this is going to make you very angry that another conspiracy theory goes than the drain, but Bloomberg did manage to get the US Treasury on the record about this fake bonds story:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aek0R0TLfVDs
Summary: they are fake
Need a hug?
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:27PM
@48 ridiculous scenario? Ben and Tim bottle-bunging Ken - you can't make stuff like that up.
Anybody else have to give their name and social to log in to post on this thread?
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:29PM
Bess - You HAVE to open this up to your people -- unbelievable!! Pleaaasseeee!!!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0609/No_namecalling.html?showall
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:29PM
@62- I meant ridiculous in the best possible way. It's why I read DB.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:33PM
"I just sharted in the elevator. I am not exactly sure how to handle the situation."
Get the elevator to stop where it is. Slide the elevator's ceiling panel to the side. Take off pants, and one shoe. Make a loop at the end of one pant leg, and place the shoe into the loop snuggly. Hook shot your pants over the panel opening, and try to wrap the pant leg with the shoe around a beam of some sort, and proceed to use the pants as a rope to climb your way out of the elevator. Once standing on top of the elevator, take of your underpants and throw them down the elevator shute. No evidence is good evidence. Put your pants back on, and find an escape route. It helps if you've looked at some blueprints beforehand. I always do before my start date at a new job.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:42PM
@62 I did... was I not supposed to do that?
Oh well I have Life Lock.
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 18, 2009 3:11PM
@65
You clearly were never a boyscout (military, s&m dom, etc):
Keep the pants, use your belt. Unless you've got the figure of a SAC employee this should be more than sufficient.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 4:52PM
If you can get your belt to wrap around the beam, then yeah, you're right.
If you cannot, you gotta use the shoe to hook the beam.
-65
p.s., let's hope our friend made it out of the elevator unharmed and emotionally stable.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 8:26PM
The fact that this happen makes me so happy.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 8:27PM
Geithner, are you reading this post? If so, Bobby says what up.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 9:15PM
@65
FTW! Funny and servicey.
Posted by eliasv , Jun 22, 2009 2:17AM
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Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 5:18AM
Thought it was "Just Call Me TTT" AKA: TurboTax Timmy...............