by Laura Conaway

Andrew Sullivan goes eight flavors of nope on U.S. Treasury boss Tim Geithner, who's still working out the details of the public-private partnership to save banks:

I'm a pretty sympathetic Obama supporter. I'd like to know what the Treasury secretary actually proposes with respect to the banking crisis. Is that really too much to ask? Maybe he'll tell us today. Who knows? He should be a critical force in explaining the government's economic policies, and yet he seems incapable of conveying anything to the American public whom he serves. He came across in his debut as a terrified intern who hadn't mastered his brief. And his political presence since has been pathetic.