Ok. It's been out for two days now and still silence here on ibrattleboro.com. I'm talking ,of course, of Timothy Geithner, President Obama's choice for Secretary of the Treasury.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95N4JF00&show_article=1

Now I gotta tell ya after they threw Richardson under the bus. I thought they'd be more careful. But this is even worse. This guy supposedly made "honest" mistakes on his tax filing. And we want this guy as secretary of the treasury? Which I will remind you, has just aquired new power under the bailout plan. New power, as in, sole power for making decisions about the money collected from us. One of the other things reported today in another source was that he claimed an overnight summer camp for his kids on his income tax.

If he was doing his own taxes shouldn't he have known this? Isn't this something the treasury secretary should be aware of?

Shouldn't the secretary of the treasury be like the main accountant for the entire system? What I mean is. Shouldn't the IRS be asking this guy policy and tax law questions?

" He paid some of the taxes in 2006, after an IRS audit discovered the discrepancy for taxes paid in 2003 and 2004. But it wasn't until much later—days before Obama tapped him to head Treasury late last year—that Geithner paid back most of the taxes, incurred in 2001 and 2002. He did so after Obama's transition team found that Geithner had made the same tax mistake his first two years at the IMF as the one the IRS found he made during his last two years there."

I'll bet some here will reference how many Republicans are saying they will still confirm him and that is true. I wonder if it's because they don't want any of their skeletons out of the closet?

Either this guy is a complete dope or he was avoiding the tax man. Here's a question for Joe Biden. Hey Joe was Tim unpatriotic for those couple of years that he didn't pay his fair share of taxes?

I can't wait to hear the excuses for this one. I'm sure some here will say that the system is so confusing and flawed that anyone could make these "mistakes". That I will agree with. However, there was only one candidate running that would've fixed that. And he wasn't running as a Republican or Democrat.

Either way this is yet another example of the corruption in Washington and I can't help but wonder if President Obama can't find anyone that isn't tainted with scandal.