Senator Susan Collins: “I Simply Can’t In Good Conscience Vote For Mr. Geithner"

All politicians in Washington, especially Republicans in our Senate, should be standing on the principles mentioned in this interview by Susan Collins. Susan Collins is a Republican from Maine, not from Texas. She is a "centrist" Republican, and even she is standing on a principle that should be above the partisan divide of Democrat and Republican. That principle is that at least the same standards that apply to the average taxpayer should apply to a nominee for Treasury Secretary, if not a higher one, and that a tax evader does not belong in the highest levels of government.

However, most our Senators do not stand on common sense principles. The Senate confirmed New York Fed chief Timothy Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury by a 60-34 vote.


Bob Woodward also dropped some "tantalizing, but vague" hints of more to come saying that he does "not think the nanny and household tax problems, and so forth, are over for the Obama administration."