Topic: Decline of the West
This is becoming ridiculous:
Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, a partner in the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration.
It's the third withdrawal of a top Treasury Department staff pick in less than a week.
Seems that Mr. Cohen may have had a tax problem. So here we are, with the financial industry in a funk and the economy in the dumpster—and The Greatest President Who Absolutely Ever Was can't even manage to find qualified candidates to run the Treasury Department! The incompetence is stunning. It's simply stunning. Imagine what Democrats would be saying in response to such a bumbling, stumbling, absolutely embarrasing performance by a Republican administration. But when the Messiah messes up, all they can do is clear their throats and shuffle their feet…