Save Geithner and Steele!

OK, so Tim Geithner let AIG have its bonuses and Michael Steele knocked over a few sacred cows. But critics already want them fired? They've only been on the job a few weeks. Mark McKinnon blasts Washington's new culture of hair trigger assassins.

Mark McKinnon

Published Mar. 15 2009 10:28AM EDT

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Off with their heads! Or fire them, anyway. It’s the latest craze in Washington and among the political and media elite.

If you don’t like someone’s policies, jump right past any legitimate critique and call for them to be fired.

Mark McKinnon

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Save Geithner and Steele!

OK, so Tim Geithner let AIG have its bonuses and Michael Steele knocked over a few sacred cows. But critics already want them fired? They've only been on the job a few weeks. Mark McKinnon blasts Washington's new culture of hair trigger assassins.

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