{"id":291,"date":"2009-04-21T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/21\/why-elizabeth-warren-is-my-hero-geithner-not-so-much\/"},"modified":"2009-04-21T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T02:00:51","slug":"why-elizabeth-warren-is-my-hero-geithner-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/21\/why-elizabeth-warren-is-my-hero-geithner-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Elizabeth Warren is My Hero; Geithner Not So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner gave a dismal performance this morning before the TARP Oversight Panel.&#160; The chairwoman, Elizabeth Warren, asked the first question, which as I said this morning, was right on.&#160; Geithner gave an answer that is sure to make Joe Six-Pack throw beer cans at the TV.&#160; It was the kind of non-response that more than obfuscates the truth; it crystallizes for the listener that the inference of Warren\u2019s question is obviously true:&#160; The banks are getting a better deal than the American manufacturing worker.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:012524fa-fdf5-4265-8333-c7ec44607844\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">\n<div id=\"cba1d348-a68c-49df-bbc7-f13de0d8540d\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qUZWSi9HL_Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" target=\"_new\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthcommonsense.com\/.a\/6a00d83420265153ef01156f432bd2970c-pi\" style=\"border-style: none\" galleryimg=\"no\" onload=\"var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('cba1d348-a68c-49df-bbc7-f13de0d8540d'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &quot;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width=\\&quot;425\\&quot; height=\\&quot;355\\&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=\\&quot;movie\\&quot; value=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qUZWSi9HL_Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qUZWSi9HL_Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en\\&quot; type=\\&quot;application\/x-shockwave-flash\\&quot; width=\\&quot;425\\&quot; height=\\&quot;355\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/embed&gt;&lt;\\\/object&gt;&lt;\\\/div&gt;&quot;;\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was never comfortable with Geithner as the architect of this economic recovery, and while he has improved his public performances in that he no longer looks like a deer in the headlights, he now just looks shifty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner gave a dismal performance this morning before the TARP Oversight Panel.&#160; The chairwoman, Elizabeth Warren, asked the first question, which as I said this morning, was right on.&#160; Geithner gave an answer that is sure to make Joe Six-Pack throw beer cans at the TV.&#160; It was the kind of non-response&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/21\/why-elizabeth-warren-is-my-hero-geithner-not-so-much\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106,5,114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}