Liars in High Places

Obama chooses to surround himself with liars and cheats. I wish he wouldn't. I didn't think he would. But he keeps disappointing me. He is still preferable to the loathesome Republican zombies pretending to represent humans but in fact only represent the synthetic "persons" called corporations.

Here is yet more evidence that Obama chooses to employ people who embrace lies and refuse the truth. From the Economics of Contempt blogon Timothy Geithner not being honest about contacts with Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, as it was going bankrupt and triggering the 2008 financial crisis:

This is a totally random, largely inconsequential discrepancy that I just happened to notice in Dick Fuld's testimony to the FCIC. But since this is, after all, my blog, I'm going to point it out anyway. After telling of a failed attempt to call Tim Geithner on Saturday, September 13th, Fuld told the FCIC (per Dealbook):
“From that weekend to this day I have not had a conversation with Chairman Geithner,” Mr. Fuld told examiners.
Oh Dick, you know they keep records of these things, right? What about your call to Geithner after the AIG bailout later that week, when you begged him to "undo" the Lehman bankruptcy (as recounted in Hank Paulson's book)? That call shows up in Geithner's call logs from the crisis, on the morning of Friday, September 19th:

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In most jobs if you are caught lying you are fired. But apparently that rule doesn't apply in the Obama administration. Geithner should be tossed out.