Just when Democrats are getting a little traction in places like West Virginia, the walking definition of an effete banker, and apparently Obama's alter ego, is back on the air waves, this time with Charlie Rose. Worse, he's downplaying the mortgage moratoria, if that's a word.

 I have nothing against Geithner other than I don't like his looks and think he is singularly responsible for Obama's lack of support among progressives--well, and just about everybody else.

Wouldn't it be possible to keep this guy chained to his desk in a back office for three more weeks? What is the rush to address this issue now, especially when the rank and file, including me and all the red necks from Vermont to California think that foreclosures are a scam and that bankers should be hog tied and left in a ditch on a cold night. 

One of my first bosses said there are two types of people--analytics and salesmen. Never let an analytic make a sales call and never put a salesmen in an accountant's position. Geithner is a supreme policy wonk and he's probably right about the damage to the system of a foreclosure moratorium--but who cares about that now, in an election, at a time when research shows everyone wants to be in someone else's face. Geithner: we get mileage from this right now by looking like it's about time to pour hot oil on bankers. Solve the problem later, this is an election. So just about the time we have a chance to make the sale the analytic pipes up--hey, wait a minute, I was just thinking that maybe the mortgage moratorium might causes some problems.

I'm reminded of Woody Allen's, one of them, great lines about marriage:

"Geithner is the death of hope".