As previously mentioned, Tim Geithner recently embarked on a pussy-offensivepussy outreach program. Whether it’s that he’s trying to gain fans among those who’ve got ‘em, has one himself, or a little bit a of both matters not. He’s going grocery shopping, he’s showing his emotions, he’s appearing in Vogue. And from the last, we’ve learned a few things about Timbo we’d previously never known. Such as:
* He’s somehow convinced people he “has the kind of looks that can go either way: Half an inch one way he’s John F. Kennedy; half an inch the other he’s Lyle Lovett.”
* He’s self-aware, and self-deprecating: “the first thing he tells [writer Rebecca Johnson] when we sit down is how much ‘shit’ he’s going to get from his friends for doing an interview with Vogue.”
* His mother watches CNBC like she’s on a trading floor: “The intensity, the consequences, the lack of a road map, the fact that three minutes after an announcement you are seeing the reaction on CNBC– it’s almost unprecedented. The televised babble became so bad at times, Geithner’s own mother thought about watching TV with the volume turned down.”
* He and Jon Stewart are gonna have words: “…the angriest he’s ever been was probably the afternoon a camera crew for Jon Stewart’s Daily Show showed up unexpectedly at his house in Larchmont, New York…Geithner’s teenage children, who were home alone at the time, had not be in on the joke. When a camera crew pulled up, they called their father at his office, terrified. ‘Ive never seen him so mad,’ one aid remembers.”
* He most likely uses an herbal remedy to take the edge off things: “What little free time he has, he prefers to spend with his children, building a ramp in the driveway for skateboarding, surfing off the coast of Cape Cod, building a guitar by hand.”
* He fantasized about being “the guy who saved Citi” but spared us having to live in a world without Uncle Vik: “…he is said to have been sorely tempted by an offer to run Citibank.”
* He knows the way to a man’s heart (through his stomach via a quick stop for a foot job): “If you’re invited to the Geithners’ for dinner, the secretary will probably have cooked it. Barefoot.”
* That shit with the taxes was about not being wasteful with money: “…his flawed tax returns dating back to his days at the IMF stems from an attempt to be frugal. Instead of paying an accountant to prepare his taxes, Geithner did them himself using Turbo Tax.”
* Deep thoughts: “In the end,” he says, sounding very much like his political hero, LBJ, “it’s not about what you believe. It’s about what you can achieve.”
“has embarked on a pussy-offensive.”
Love it. Pussy Offensive.
Timmy Geithner is a lying sack of excrement. This is what he did:
Over several years, Treasury secretary nominee Timothy F. Geithner failed to pay Social Security taxes, even though he was advised by his employer to do so, signed an agreement indicating that he understood that such payments were his responsibility and received extra pay from his employer specifically for that purpose.
Mr. Geithner “came clean” only when he was caught, first by an IRS audit that found he owed Social Security taxes for 2003 and 2004 and then when additional tax liabilities for 2001 and 2002 were discovered after his nomination.
Turbotax does not tell you that you don’t have to pay Social Security tax, OK? It doesn’t. He deliberately cheated on his taxes and he only paid because he got caught. He is a scumbag, and he’s going to be gone before Obambro runs for reelection.
re the “sparing you the humiliation of buying your own copy.” i have a subscription. obviously.
-pj
They have sound on CNBC? I always thought it was pantomime.
-another former Lehman quant
Like he could do what I do? I think not.
-VP
@bess- doesn’t barefoot contessa has the best recipes?
-banker chick
Now will people finally understand that my dick really is bigger than JFK’s?
Oh boy, that picture awakened my slumbering giant.
-Barney Frank
Now thats what I call a stimulus package….
“He likes to tool around the waters of Cape Cod in his old school Boston Whaler.”
Can’t help feeling there’s a joke in there somewhere.
pussy-offensive isn’t quite right. More a pussy outreach program.
@AB– 6 to 1
A quick stop at Oprah, followed by a chat with the ladies on The View should make the pussification complete.
This is going much so better than I imagined it.
@6 why don’t you and BL whip us up something?
Here’s one thing I definitely know about Timothy Geithner: Some of his best friends are from Goldman Sachs and AIG. He’s a financial terrorist just like Paulson was.
Nevertheless, I read a pretty good article, or op-ed, in an angry tone, about GS.
Who wants to see my giant organic gherkin?
Ladies with an attitude, fellows that were in the mood. Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it strike a pose, there’s nothing to it.
@ 16 – seedless?
Net result – even voters who did not know him now have an unfavourable opinion of him. A toast for a job well done.
@15, really Taibbi wrote a GS article?? Fascinating. Please go back to sleep.
Voltool, hes one of your master class people, how can he be doing a bad job? Please pray tell.
“…his political hero, LBJ”
Or as his Mexican whores used to refer to him “El BJ!”
mmmmmm giant organic gherkins…..mmmmm
-Bawney The Veggie Swallower
@ 20. I’ll keep it to myself for a change.
P.S./Dems and master class don’t mix well, like vodka and gatorage.
Sincerely,
A. Tool
I prepared it as I bathed
When the IMF hires consultants they make it v-e-r-y clear that American citizens have to pay U.S. taxes. The Republicans aren’t going to let that one pass and as long as tax chisler Timmy is at Treasury, he’s a millstone around the messiah’s dick.
@25 Of course they have to pay taxes dumbfuck. He was filing income tax returns when he failed to pay the employer’s share of payroll taxes. Which the IRS says that half of the IMF’s American employees haven’t.