Tim Geithner Does a Mean Rumba

A different type of government, President Obama? One that is transparent? Let's see: 

Sen. John Kyl (R-Arizona): "You made the same mistakes on your 2001 and 2002 taxes as you did on your 2003 and 2004 taxes, which you corrected -- at any time before being asked to be Treasury secretary did you think to go back and pay your back taxes from '01 and '02?" Hey, Mr. Treasury Secretary hopeful, did you only decide to pay back taxes when you calculated it would be politically expedient?

"Isn't it a fact that you immediately or very quickly realized that the same mistake you made in 2003 and '04 was probably made in '01 and 02 but the statute of limitations had run out and you didn't have to pay taxes for the other years?" We are all under the impression that you are not an idiot and therefore knew exactly what you were doing.

Tim "I want to run the IRS" Geithner: "It was a mistake, the IRS told me I had fulfilled my obligation, I should have caught it." Dude, gimme a break, of course I tried to put one over the IRS -- you know it and so does anyone watching me squirm now. But I was told that if I keep saying "mistake, mistake, sorry, sorry" that you guys would cut me some slack. I need a bail-out here.

Kyl: "Would you answer my question rather than dancing around it, please? The question is whether it occurred to you before you were nominated or approached to be nominated that, in point of fact, you didn't have to go beyond [your '03 and '04 taxes] because of the statute of limitations?" Stop jacking with me, you mealy-mouth tax dodger and fess up.

Geithner: "I did not believe I had the obligation to go back. I did not think about that until I was going through the vetting process....I had no occasion to think about it and I might not have thought about it had I not gone through the vetting process." There...I said it. I paid because I want this job. By the way, with the Democratic majority I'm gonna get this job no matter what because I'm the only one that can save the economy. And, yes, I'm trying to make eye contact and speak up but I just can't.

President Obama (Inauguration Speech): "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility – a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation..." 

This is Change? Good Grief!

P.S. Didn't Barack Obama nominate Bill Richardson for Secretary of Commerce? That didn't work out very well either. Something about an investigation into Pay for Play and ethics.