Republicans aren’t the only ones who’d like to see Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner thrown out onto the White House lawn. Oregon Democratic representative Peter DeFazio spoke with the Wall Street Journal today and said Geithner needs to get lost, …
Read Original Story: Democrat Wants Geithner To Resign Too – New York Magazine
by Chris in Paris on 11/19/2009 01:03:00 PM The news never gets better when it comes to Larry Summers or Timmy Geithner. It’s always about another TARP fiasco or whatever Wall Street wants. We’re well past the point where Wall Street deserves one more …
Read Original Story: Calls from Congress to fire Timmy and Summers – AMERICAblog (blog)
(ChattahBox)–Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), a leading member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus is not impressed with the Wall Street backgrounds of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White Houseeconomic policy director Larry Summers. …
Read Original Story: Dem Wants Wall Streeters Geithner and Summers Fired – ChattahBox
Like Peter DeFazio, I’m no economist. And I have some serious questions about some of the ways our public money has been spent in the name of rescuing the economy. But I completely disagree with DeFazio’s call for the resignation of Treasury Secretary …
Read Original Story: Why sacrifice Geithner? – Oregon Business
As Streetsblog Capitol Hill readers may know, there is no love lost between lawmakers on the House transportation committee and President Obama’s economic advisers. When the Obama administration first pushed to delay …
Read Original Story: DeFazio: Summers, Geithner Oppose Using Bailout Money on Infrastructure – Streetsblog Capitol Hill (blog)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Adding to lawmaker criticism of US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s performance is a new survey released on Friday showing 42 percent of Americans say he has done a "poor job" handling the credit crisis and federal bailout …
Read Original Story: Nearly half of Americans rate Geithner performance "poor" – Reuters
"Especially if you look back at the AIG scandal and Goldman [Sachs] and others who got their bets paid off in full," he said. "Instead of saying ‘you bet, you lost,’ they got paid back in full through AIG. We channeled the money through them. …
Read Original Story: Democrat DeFazio Says It's Time for Geithner to Go – National Review Online (blog)
Yesterday and again today in a Congressional hearing Tim Geithner’s resignation was a topic of discussion. I will say I told you so long before now. On March 23, 2009 in Toxic Assets: Geithner just put only the rich in Titanic’s lifeboats, …
Read Original Story: I won't say I told you so but Geithner still needs to go – Examiner.com
A Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) member said there’s "growing consensus" among liberals that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should step down. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said Wednesday that he and …
Read Original Story: House Dem: 'Growing' liberal consensus to dump Geithner – The Hill
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) — Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said Thursday top members of President Obama’s economic team were focused on Wall Street, not Main Street. DeFazio said White Houseeconomic adviser Larry Summers was "an adviser from Wall Street …
Read Original Story: A Democrat calls for Geithner to go – United Press International
