Obama’s trying to prop up Treasury Secretary Geithner today, as calls for his head have begun in earnest. Barry says “nobody’s working harder than Geithner”, even though he’s given us zero details on what the hell he’s doing at work. B.O. says there has never been a Secretary of the Treasury that’s had more to deal with. Lay off of Timmy!

Because Turbo-Tax was present at the AIG porkout workout, along with Hank (I’m a Goldman boy) Paulson and the Fed’s Ben Bernanke. Today’s grilling of AIG’s CEO Edward Liddy over who knew what, when bonus-wise…saw Liddy tossing up this info, and said that “AIG does everything in concert with the Treasury department.”

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) told radio host (and my homeboy) Steve Gill that he thinks Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is in serious trouble.

“I think he’s on thin ice. What happens over the next 24 to 48 hours will determine his future.”

Two House Republicans who have now called on Geithner to resign.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) hopped on the bandwagon started by Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) earlier today, who asked that Geithner either be fired or resign. Issa “is calling on Sec. Geithner to resign!” according to his Twitter page. Issa’s call comes after a House Financial Services Subcommittee meeting today, where lawmakers concentrated almost as much anger toward Geithner as on AIG CEO Liddy.

Meanwhile, the unbelievable, unconstitutional suggestions coming out of Congress regarding the bonuses are insane. Congressmen were TRIPPING over each other to bag the mike at the hearings today. Tax the bonuses! Give them back! Chris Dodd has done a Linda Blair on AIG AFTER voting for all of the shenanigans. The hypocritical indignation is disgusting.

Every one of those guys knew what was going on, when it was going on. The Porkulus had language in it that exempted AIG’s bonuses, courtesy of Todd. He swears it is NOT his language in the bill! Chris says Barry made them put that language in!

Come ON. The Treasury and the Fed have been laundering the REAL money through AIG since the TARP passed. Why isn’t anyone grilling Goldman Sachs? Fannie and Freddie are paying big fat bonuses too, is Barney Frank gonna take any heat for that?

Timmy just now got a playmate at Treasury, too. From Citigroup. But Barry’s catching heat for AIG, and it’s distracting attention from his Overspending Bill tour. And he’s not real happy about that.

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