[Pen-l] Timmy meets the Establishment

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

<http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/timmy-meets-the-establishment/ 
>

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared this morning at the Council  
on Foreign Relations. The main meeting room, named after private  
equity kingpin and entitlement scourge Pete Peterson, was jam-packed  
with members, so we media hacks had to watch the proceedings on a  
video screen set up in the David Rockefeller Room.

Geithner’s remarks (as prepared, here; as delivered, here) mostly  
achieved the anodyne level customary to the genre. He’s glib in a way,  
but doesn’t give the impression of having a powerful or capacious  
mind. Though he’s 47, he still gives the impression of being a kid  
playing at being a grownup—or so it seemed on the closed-circuit TV.

A couple of highlights stand out amidst the boilerplate...._______________________________________________
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