Huckabee: Replace Geithner with Trump

From CNN:

Amid calls by the GOP for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s resignation, one Republican is offering an unorthodox choice for a potential replacement.

“Ask Donald Trump to be Treasury secretary,” Mike Huckabee said on Fox News Channel.

The former Arkansas governor elaborated: “Have Donald Trump take the job for 90 days. It’s a game changer.”…

Trump certainly wouldn’t be worse than Geithner and may end up a lot better.  Certainly, unless Obama really changes course at this point we’re heading for a really bad time.  Even a major course change won’t completely get us out of the soup…but swift action, now, can prevent “bad” from becoming “hideous”.  If not Trump, then someone who has a bit of guts and a bit of knowledge of business.

But I doubt we’ll see it – Obama may call in Underbus to rid himself of a political liability, but I doubt Obama even sees the need for a real change, let alone what that change might entail.

 

11 thoughts on “Huckabee: Replace Geithner with Trump

  1. js's avatar js August 6, 2011 / 8:50 pm

    until you dump obieOne….this whole mess wont get better…its nice to play make believe…but america is under attack by socialism and marxists…if we dont fight back…this will turn the USA away from our founding roots right into the hands of the communists….

    simple solution…obieOne is not qualified to hold the office of POTUS…every law he signed…every executive order he created…every appointment he made…is invalid….period…

    dump his arse…toss him in the klink…with his bag full of cronies…and let them rot…

    • neocon1's avatar neocon1 August 7, 2011 / 10:33 am

      try him for treason, hang him

  2. doug's avatar doug August 7, 2011 / 1:59 am

    I’ve wondered if Huck was president if he would preside with the balls he has when commenting on fox.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 7, 2011 / 10:52 am

      doug, I’ve wondered the same thing. I contributed to Huck’s original presidential effort, but backed off when he started talking about amnesty for illegals. I thought he trivialized himself with his TV show, but when he actually comments on politics he comes across very well.

      But that amnesty thing will always keep me from seeing him as a presidential option.

  3. Amazona's avatar Amazona August 7, 2011 / 10:50 am

    I think the treasurer of the local Girl Scout Cookie Drive could replace Geithner and do a better job. At least she would be more likely to understand you don’t get out of debt by borrowing more.

    And she probably pays her taxes.

    I think the name “Geithner” may become a verb, as in a reference to someone tanking a business by swamping it in debt and mismanaging its funds, “He sure did Geithner that company”.

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook August 7, 2011 / 10:53 am

      Sounds like the makings of a great political ad:

      WE CAN’T LET BARACK OBAMA GEITHNER AMERICA FOR ANOTHER 4 YEARS.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster August 7, 2011 / 11:32 am

        Where do I buy the bumper sticker?

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 7, 2011 / 12:42 pm

        It’s cooler than DON’T GEITHNER ME, BRO!

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook August 7, 2011 / 6:25 pm

        It’s cooler than DON’T GEITHNER ME, BRO!

        Yeah, but THAT would fit on a bumper sticker.

  4. ragingbull's avatar ragingbull August 7, 2011 / 3:53 pm

    i believe that the owner of the company i work for is geithnering his company.

    i like how that sounds…great job amazona!

  5. Sunny's avatar Sunny August 8, 2011 / 4:43 pm

    Well, since Donald Trump has gone through bankruptcy about 4 times I think he would be a fabulous Secretary of Treasurer.

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