Michael Wolff seems to be echoing Rush Limbaugh on this post about Obama being a weak Yuppie and Yuppie Tim Geithner being the shortest-tenured Treasury Sec'y since someone long ago. He seems gleeful that Obama might fail. I share Wolff's view that Geithner is a lightweight. But this is not helpful.
Speaking of which, I heard Brian Lehrer interviewing Eliot Spitzer on WNYC yesterday. That's a guy who knows what's going on on Wall Street and is not a gameplayer, could actually get his mind around these problems. A pity that our vice laws have deprived us of his technical leadership, now that we need it. Oh and Gov. David Paterson–another lightweight, and a gift of our traditional sexual mores.
