Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner met up with GOP congressional leaders last week to talk specifics about what it's going to take to come to a deal to avert the fiscal cliff at the end of the month. But House Speaker John Boehner's wasn't impressed, channeling John McEnroe by declaring that Geithner simply could not be serious.
Boehner called the administration proposal that included $1.6 trillion in tax increases, $400 billion in unspecified tax cuts and a bevy of additional stimulus spending, “nonsense.”
Geithner was doing the "full Ginsberg" Sunday morning, appearing on all five of the Sunday morning talk-shows. Of course that didn't work out so well for the last member of President Obama's Cabinet to go that route, or have you somehow forgotten about Susan Rice's now infamous comments from September 16?
Geithner told CNN's Candy Crowley that "It's a very good plan and we think it's a good basis for these conversations,” on CNN's "State of the Union. “What we did is put forward a very comprehensive, very carefully designed mix of savings and tax rates to help us put us back on a path to stabilizing our debt, fixing our debt and living within our means.”
This article appears in Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2012.