Of course, none of the Drive-Bys want to touch this story with a ten-foot pole. Funny how they’d react if it were Sarah Palin instead. We wouldn’t hear the end of it.

Regards,
Peter H.

And moaning about the Ivy league? Ha! You think a graduate from the U of Idaho would be more appropriate?

Yeah, why not? Unversity of Idaho graduates include,

Frank Schrontz, former chairman and CEO of Boeing
Dirk kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior
Linda Trout, Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
Terrell Bell, Secretary of Education
Lawrence Chamberlain, Dean of Obama’s own Columbia University

as well as governors, senators, astronauts, CEO’s, diplomats, and on and on and on.

Or how about famous drop outs like Woodrow Wilson, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell

or even flunk-outs like…

Al Gore

The best minds and the greatest talents do not all go to ivy league schools, nor do all the graduates of ivy leagues have the best minds and greatest talent.

1. His Commerce Secretary has to drop out because of a pay-for-play scandal.

2. His Treasury Secretary commits tax evasion and when he gets caught channels the Steve Martin “I forgot” excuse.

3. His wife goes to the inauguration in a dress so ugly even straight men are making fun of it.

And this is just the first week.

I hate to see us ridicule a set of schools just because some of their graduates represent an elitist, patronizing point of view — a view the schools likely encourage. That kind of beer garden populism never works well. I’ve attended private and public colleges and universities and there were all types at all of them.

Call it part of Barack Hussein Obama’s “new transparency.”

Unfortunately, I don’t think you were.

Let’s deconstruct your screed, shall we?

“He’ll be confirmed…for the big reason is that he’s one of a very few who can handle such a mess at this point in time.”

So what you are saying is that if you want to have someone in charge of law enforcement, you hire a murderer or rapist? Puh-leeeze.

Geither is anything BUT a paragon of wisdom. From where I sit, he’s got nothing but a string of failures to show for his supposed talents. The banking system practically collapsed on his watch, he was instrumental in the brain-dead TARP scheme, and he can’t even do his own taxes with the help of TurboTax. Oh yeah, he’s a genius. (SARC)

I just find it ironic that the most un-vetted candidate in American history can take the highest office in the land, and nobody thinks to vet his own Cabinet apointees. Liberals need to remember that it is not only competence but character that matters. (Paging Bill Clinton…)

Okay, so that meme is destroyed. Next up:

“While I know it’s popular among conservatives to bash the Ivy league, it just further demonstrates how out-of-touch with reality those that do are.”

Most Ivy Leaguers are elitists at heart – merely gaze at the entire Eastern seaboard for starters Funny, but most of our recent presidents (except Reagan and Carter) went to Ivy League schools – including Algore, who actually flunked out of Harvard Divinity School. (This begs the question – how do you flunk God? But I digress.)

It’s not so much that conservatives “bash” the Ivy League; we just sit back and watch all the pseudo-intellectual Marxist doublespeak emanating from those hallowed halls and report the truth. Talk about people being locked away in ivory towers – they look upon us here in the rest of the country as “bitter” and “clinging to guns and religion.”

Besides, it’s not just Ivy League schools that produce hard-core wingnuts – look at CU (Ward Churchill) and my alma mater The University of Texas (Dan Rather, Bill Moyers, Bill Schieffer – I could go on and on).

Tell me something: if unethical Ivy League-educated bankers brought about this financial crisis, why is everybody so sure an unethical Ivy League educated banker is going to fix it?

Checkmate.

Regards,
Peter H.

Yes the Ivy League has a reputation for being at the apex of our educational system but quite a few historical screw-ups seem to have come from there. So it seems to be just as fair to mock the Ivy League as to denegrate schools like the U of Idaho!

Of course the left rarely if ever admits it is associated with wrong doing so it might be a waste of effort to try this.

And moaning about the Ivy league? Ha! You think a graduate from the U of Idaho would be more appropriate? While I know it’s popular among conservatives to bash the Ivy league, it just further demonstrates how out-of-touch with reality those that do are.

One thing that’s struck me over the last few months is that it was a bunch of Ivy League educated bankers that got us into this economic mess, why do we expect a bunch of Ivy League bankers (and lawyers) to get us out of it?

What we all need to do is keep pressing for a simplification of the IRS tax code. The darn thing is truly incomprehensible.

After, of course, he had signed documentation from his employer that stated he knew he had the obligation to pay the tax AND had received an extra allowance specifically to cover those taxes.

The fact that he got away with breaking the law does not mean that breaking the law was a good idea. For heaven’s sake, we want to put a tax cheat in charge of the IRS?