What makes Geithner so special is that he was first. All the credit was burned up on him. I don't think guilt by association works though. If that were true, even you, the pristine Robert Scheer, would be suspect. We have a chance to move forward. Civilization doesn't advance reliably when it moves to fast. Lenin and Trotsky learned that the hard way. Let's put aside the gossip, look at how they are handling the issues, and base our criticism on what you or I might realistically expect to do if we were in the same position. Then we will get somewhere.