Talking to Greta Van Sustern on Fox News the other day, Rep. Greg Walden said he thinks Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner should resign because of the AIG bonus mess.
“I’ve lost confidence in him, I think America has lost confidence in him, and many in the Congress have,” Walden says. “And you’re hearing more and more members of Congress, House and Senate, coming forward and joining in this call for him to go.”
It’s certainly fair to question Geithner’s performance; in fact, The Wandering Eye is none too delighted with it either.
But Carla Axtman on the Blue Oregon blog asks what also seems like a fair question: Where was Walden’s sense of righteous outrage during all the Bush administration’s scandals and screw-ups?
Axtman notes that Walden did not call for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (architect of the original failed Iraq occupation strategy), Michael “You’re Doing a Heck of a Job, Brownie” Brown (in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the Katrina debacle) or Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (who was forced to resign after stonewalling Congress about the politically motivated firings of assorted U.S. attorneys, among other things).
“In all, 42 Bush Administration officials resigned under a cloud of disgrace,” Axtman writes. “As far as I can tell, Walden didn’t call for a single one of them to resign before they left.”
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I wrote Greg Walden an e-mail expressing my outrage over the AIG bonus mess. It took him a long time to see which way the wind was blowing, before he made some comment.
I think he is just expressing the line of his party, which has not done anything to help getting us out of this depression. It is time to vote him out of office the next time there are elections. Voting for a Republican, is the same thing as putting a rapist in charge of a girl’s school.
In fact that was happening all the time the Republicans were in power.
I have no confidence in anything Greg Walden has to say!
Keith James: So you put your faith in the Democrats who have been in charge of the financial screw ups for the last two and 1/2 years??? You are a fool!!!