He’s no good, but he’s the best we’ve got:
A senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee said he believes Timothy Geithner’s failure to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes is “completely unacceptable” and would in any other time disqualify Geithner from heading the Treasury Department. But the senator, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, decided to vote for Geithner because it would take too long to find a replacement candidate for the key cabinet post.
“On the matter of Mr. Geithner’s failure to pay certain self-employment taxes, I find it completely unacceptable,” Conrad said before the committee’s 18-5 vote to approve Geithner yesterday. “I’m a former tax commissioner, I’ve dealt with hundreds of cases like this one, and in normal times that alone would lead me to oppose his confirmation. But these are not normal times, and I personally don’t think we can afford a further delay in the filling of this critically important position.”
Got that? Morality is to be set aside during abnormal times. One wonders if Senator Conrad has a list os sins which are permissible at various times – tax cheating is ok during a recession, so is adultery ok when one is lonely? This is taking situational ethics to its natural end – which end being a moral vacuum.
These are the guys in charge of the shop, boys and girls. Feel comfortable?
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