How Can I Get You Alone?
I don’t know why Tim Geithner has such a hard time pulling chicks.
Good looking guy…
Smooth talker…
“These were careless mistakes. They were avoidable mistakes. But they were unintentional. I should have been more careful. I take full responsibility for them. I have gone back and corrected these errors and paid what I owed. I want to apologize to the committee for putting you in the position of having to spend so much time on these issues when there is so much pressing business for the country.”
“Is there a concrete plan here, and if so, how do we assess it? We need to see it…operational details,” Sen. Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) told Mr. Geithner.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) was more blunt: “There’s not a hell of a lot here to get a sense of.”
Dude should be catnip.
Yet:
The person Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wanted as his chief deputy withdrew from consideration Thursday, dealing a setback to the agency as it struggles to address the worst financial crisis in decades.
Annette Nazareth, a former senior staffer and commissioner with the Securities and Exchange Commission, made “a personal decision” to withdraw from the process, according to a person familiar with her decision.
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Geithner has been criticized for staffing his department too slowly as it grapples with a banking crisis that has crippled the economy. Uncertainty about Treasury staff also has unnerved financial markets.
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Geithner’s choice for undersecretary of international affairs, Caroline Atkinson, also withdrew from consideration, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
In the past, government service looked good on a resumé. Something tells me (or tells these women) that the day will soon come when they’ll have to draw thick black lines—as in heavily redacted CIA files—through any mention of their employment in the Obama administration.