The Only Man For The Job lays an egg on Wall Street

" When Tim Geithner ran into trouble in his confirmation over unpaid taxes, Barack Obama and the Democrats insisted that Geithner had to be confirmed. He was not just the best qualified candidate for Treasury Secretary, they insisted; he was the only person qualified to handle the economic crisis. The Senate confirmed him, and the rest of us sat back to wait for the brilliance of Geithner and the plan that only he could devise to solve it."