The Bell Tolls For Tim Geithner...

The NY Times is reporting that Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, is being touted behind the scenes as a possible successor to Tim Geithner.  The NY Post also had the story.  The fact that this story has surfaced like this suggests that the end is near for Tiny-Brain Tim:

Mr. Dimon “would love to serve his country,” the newspaper quoted people familiar with his thinking as saying...here's the link:  NY Times: Geithner May Be Done

If Obama really wants to clean up the mess in the financial sector, he would find a replacement that has absolutely no economic ties to Wall Street or the Fed.  Since the primary purpose of the Treasury Department is to oversee the collection of tax revenues, the disbursement of those revenues and managing the liability side of the Government's balance sheet (i.e. issuing debt to finance the Government), perhaps someone with a solid background in accounting and bread and butter banking operations would be a good choice.  Since regional banks are the backbone of small business lending, and small business growth is the backbone of job growth and econmic stability, perhaps a solid candidate might be the CEO/CFO of a successful regional bank.

The problem with Jamie Dimon is that he would be nothing more than a retread of Stuttering Henry Paulson  - albeit a version of Paulson less the stuttering speech impediments.  Recall that Paulson is the person who essentially hijacked $700 billion from the Taxpayers and shuffled a large portion of that money thru AIG to Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and others.  How can we possibly expect Jamie Dimon to act differently that Paulson did, which would be for him to act in the interests of the American Public and not the corrupt Wall Street Community?

This just in from a loyal reader:  The overall strategy needs to be to avoid Wall St and anyone who may be connected to that avenue. The Treasury needs to be about protecting the taxpayers $ - Wall St is inherently set up to abscond with it.

My response:  Putting Dimon in there would be nothing more than replacing a barking chihuahua with Godzilla dressed up as Florence Nightingale.