Timothy Geithner...

I'm rather torn about this man. I think there's lots of things he could be doing better. And it certainly says something about him, the administration, and the job he faces, that he can't get a single secretary hired to work for him in over 2 months...five people have bowed out after initially being interested in working with Treasury Secretary Geithner.

But let's be clear: Timothy Geithner should NOT be fired or resign, based on two months of work. Calls for or speculation to the contrary are misguided, at best.

Remember, this was "the best man for the job". Who else is there????

Ok, some may say their 5th grader can give better speeches than the man, with less of a deer-in-the-headlights look than the "best man" in the nation to be Treasury Secretary. Some may say that he's a tax cheat. Some may say he's a gambler and that we can't afford to gamble with taxpayer money.

Well those are the exact same reasons that I felt he shouldn't be Treasure Secretary in the first place. But since not enough other people cared to call their Senators back then and demand that he not be confirmed, we are stuck with him. And let's be serious, it's not like he's going to go out and pursue policies that are opposite President Obama. This is the exact kind of change we called for, right? Right???

No? Are you sure you didn't mandate a complete 180 degree shift in our country's future when you voted for Barack Obama??? Didn't you get the memo? Cause that's how he and the rest of the liberals in Washington took it in November.

I digress.

Whether or not I agree with Timothy Geithner or his mere presence in the office of the Treasury, he must be allowed to have a reasonable amount of time, in this large of an undertaking, to perform. Can that exact amount of time be all it takes to send this country onto a course it will never recover from? Possibly. But that's the risk we took with President Obama.

If we're concerned, the first line of questions we need to be asking is why the administration can't get the man some help! Why are all those people bowing out before even being offered a job??? Are they all tax cheats? Do none of them want to be part of a strategy that could bankrupt the country?? What? What is the problem up there folks? Does the need to be on Jay Leno supersede the need to get the most important, and unelected, department in the country fully staffed during this "country's greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression"? Not my words...President Obama's words.

So if your thinking Timothy Geithner should get the ax...just stop. Instead, first stand up and demand the man get some help for crying out loud. Then demand for more transparency from the most powerful and unelected department in government. And then...then if there are things that frighten you...then you can call for change...but first call for change in policy...before a change in leadership.