Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner tries stand-up comedy, defends last year’s “welcome to the recovery” op-ed

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Tim Geithner demonstrates his typical lost expression

Government officials just don’t come any funnier than Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

We believe it’s absolutely impossible to keep a straight face when you hear his latest material. You’d laugh even if he didn’t look like Butthead’s doppelganger.

Here he is defending an op-ed he wrote last year when he announced the Summer of Recovery. This is, of course, despite record unemployment, increasing inflation, and an imploding economy.

The guy is a laugh riot.

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  • I've been busily sifting through the jumpsuit locker, here at the prison, looking for a nice orange number in his size. I'll have to go to the Contro Center for all the stainless steel accessories. I hope he took a leak 'cause there's no scheduled stops between there and here!

  • Today's revised 4th quarter 2010 GDP of .4% growth tells a far different picture.

    As my father (the used car salesman) would say "People that think they are smart are the easiest to fool." Timmah thinks he is very, very smart.

    • Here's another old Grampa saying. "If I could buy men like that for what they're worth, and sell them for what they think they're worth, I'd be a rich man."

  • Of course he, like Obama, can look straight into a camera and lie. They know they have enough uneducated, uninformed, easily duped morons who will believe their every word. How do you think this country lost its soul?

  • He looks uncomfortable because he's hoping nobody asks him if he filed his 1998 income taxes yet!

  • He did look just a little uncomfortable throughout the clip, did he not? I love it.

  • "Welcome to the Recovery".... you'll see that sign all over the country the day Obama leaves office.