Daily Kos founder: "Geithner is starting to look like Obama's Rumsfeld."

[ArchieStone1]

http://twitter.com/markosmoulitsas/status/1370954092

[spotbird]

1. Let's just hope it doesn't take

President Obama six years of blind loyalty to figure it out.

[babylonsister]

2. no one said kos couldn't be idiotic.

To compare Geithner to a war criminal is completely idiotic.

[Dawgs]

3. +1

I've never been a big fan of Geithner, but it's a little early to start comparing him to someone as evil as Rumsfeld.

[ProSense]

19. Delete. wrong place

:hi:

[KittyWampus]

29. apparently you are in denial about the scope of the financial crisis and the extent to which

power has shifted out of public hands.

And Obama's economic team is part of the problem and will simply allow the economic carnage to continue with ZERO accountability or transparency.

[babylonsister]

32. Bull. You tell me how a war criminal

can be compared to Geithner. Really, please connect those dots, because I'm not getting them.

How many people is Geithner responsible for killing?

[Phx_Dem]

41. Yeah, and you're expert credentials in economics are . . . .?

[countingbluecars]

4. First Katrina comparisons

and now Rumsfeld. Ridiculous.

[Cha]

25. REally! Hyperbole

much.

[Jennicut]

5. Lovely. What war cimes did Geithner commit? This hyperbole

is getting a bit ridiculous. Please everyone feel free to criticize Geithner and Summers but stop with the comparisons to Katrina and Rumsfeld and who knows what else. I refuse to even read what these people have to say when they start out with lunatic rantings.

[ProSense]

6. I see

Kos is off his meds again.

[beachmom]

14. Really. Rumsfeld and Katrina all invoked in one day.

Wow, everyone is DEAD CERTAIN the plan will fail. I didn't realize they were all such economic PhD. experts.

[ProSense]

21. Ben Smith at Politico is pushing all three:

Politico:

When Markos, Frank Rich, and Newt are all on the same page, it means ... what?

[certainot]

26. they're all channeling limbaugh/heritage foundation talking points

[KittyWampus]

31. at th is point it seems a large contingent of DU'ers have their heads up their asses

trying to pretend Obama's economic team is worth a damn as far as democracy and american taxpayers are concerned.

[ProSense]

34. How do you know what they're worth?

So far they've done a great job on the stimulus (that some people derided).

[certainot]

36. who do you suggest that's not going to get trashed by the lying republicans

who decide the flavor of america?

it doesn't matter who obama picks - maybe he should have put phil gramm in eh?

[Diane R]

7. It's good to see sane comments in this thread.

[FrenchieCat]

8. This is essentially a fucked up thing to say, and nothing more.

It plays into exactly what the folks rooting for our ultimate failure.

He can certainly say it, but he is playing into a dangerous notion far as I'm concerned.

[liberalmuse]

9. Oh shit. Even normally sane people are losing it.

Frank Rich (Katrina???). And now Kos? Geithner is certainly no Rumsfeld. When normally rational people start stretching their once logical minds in order to compare apples and oranges, it scares the shit out of me.

[Starry Messenger]

10. Kos has a Twitter?

I wish Skinner did, too. That would be hawesome. :D Another gem from Kos:

http://twitter.com/markosmoulitsas/status/1363686409
# How long does it take beer guts to go away? Mine is unsightly.
4:48 PM Mar 20th from web

[countingbluecars]

11. I guess I need to learn

about twitter because when I click on the link I see only a bunch of random comments. If we are going to link to twitter comments, is there a way to see in what context comments are made?

[zulchzulu]

12. If you use Twitter, you have lost ALL CREDIBILITY

Twitter is for twits. Period.

It's like someone bragging to me how many bootleg live Britney CDs they have.

[Luminous Animal]

17. Christopher Walken twitters

and he writes some of the funniest shit I've read in a long time.

http://twitter.com/cwalken

[Starry Messenger]

22. And the Obama campaign used Twitter, too.

http://twitter.com/BarackObama

It's all in how you use it. I just think it's funny that Kos has an entire website with his name on it and he also needs Twitter. I guess he doesn't want us to miss out.

[zulchzulu]

35. Real chat is done on IRC. Twitter is for kiddies and McCain...

I'm sure Twitter has some good shit on it. I used it for a week to see what the buzz was.

It sucks, dude.

[Hippo_Tron]

37. I've always thought DU should get an IRC chatroom

I suggested it back when there was an Ask the Admins forum, but I don't think it got any response.

[stevietheman]

28. Based on what?

All kinds of thoughtful individuals are on Twitter, and there's all sorts of great insights can be found there. As with anything, it's about how you use it.

[Median Democrat]

13. Timothy Geithner Is Obama's Joseph Goebbels!

Hah, I topped Daily KO's founder.


:sarcasm:

[QC]

15. PUMA!1!!!!1 PUMAA!!!1!!!11

[ArchieStone1]

16. Agree. Twitter makes one say short, dumb things

Because the lack of opportunity to type something longer makes a Twitterer want to say the most shocking, hard-hitting thing he could think of, without offering explanations. You cannot go over 140 characters.

[beachmom]

18. Marc Ambinder responds:

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/03/geithner_as_obamas_rumsfeld.php

It's a fairly audacious comparison Markos Moulitsas makes, perhaps unfair, but it's not an uncommon sentiment on the left these days.



God our side sucks.

[ErinBerin84]

20. yeah

I don't like Geithner either, but this seems a bit um, extreme.

[TexasObserver]

23. Markos says something stupid every week.

[beachmom]

24. And now it will be every 5 minutes.

[Uzybone]

27. What will Obamas 9/11 be?

Since that seems the be what the media is doing now. Trying to do the job they failed to do for 8 years within 60 days.

[Jennicut]

30. The thing is the media still never made Bush own up to the fact

that 9/11 was his fault.

[Median Democrat]

33. Yet, The Media Tries To Blame Obama For The Ongoing Wreakage Of Bush's Clusterfuck Economy

This recession has been going on since December 2007 despite Bush's repeated efforts to insist that the worse is behind us with respect to the subprime crisis. Yet, Bush was given a free pass on 9/11. Worse, ABC ran a mini-series that essentially laid blame on the Clinton despite the fact that Bush was in office for 9 months at the time of the attack.

[and-justice-for-all]

38. That is going a bit far, dont ya think? nt

[stillcool]

39. Well, we do have the economy we have..

not the economy we want.

[zulchzulu]

40. Anyone who thinks Geithner is in ANY way like Rumsfeld is a simpleton on bad crack

Geithner has been at his gig less than two months and he faces an incredibly difficult and complicated situation with the banking industry and the economy.

To even infer that he's a "Rumsfeld" is pure amateurish nonsense... it's like someone comparing someone to someone else based on a life experience of five years.

Dumb. Ass.

[Phx_Dem]

42. Kos drops a stink bomb on Twitter where he can't include

any facts due to the word limit. Cute.

[Thrill]

43. THis is bullshit. The guy has been in office 2 fucking months. This is nonsense

You can't clean up Bush's bullshit that quick

[uponit7771]

44. WOW! We gave Rumsfield at least a year!!!!!

[BeyondGeography]

45. Absurd

[Proud Liberal Dem]

46. Obama has been in office TWO months, Geithner slightly less

How in the world can people already be acting as though all of the problems caused by the previous (mis-)administration should already be solved, let alone comparing six years of Bush holding on to an incompetent Defense Secretary and (unindicted) war criminal to two months of Obama having a possibly less-than-perfect Treasury Secretary?
:wtf:

If nothing is really happening after the next few months or into next year then I'll start questioning Geithner's competence/fitness for his position but let's be real: All of the problems Bush and his (mis-)administration caused, let alone the economy, are NOT going to be solved overnight or even in two months- probably NO MATTER WHO IS IN CHARGE. If things are still doing as bad next year without any perceptible changes for the better maybe I'll change my tune but, frankly, I'm just thankful that it's Obama and HIS people trying to figure out how to solve these problems instead of McCain/Palin and theirs.

:scared:

Boy, I sure don't envy Obama and/or anybody working for him.