Anger? Now That Would Be a Bonus

Thank meek Tim Geithner for the wrath coming from the New York Times today. “We need a Treasury secretary so terrifying that if you were stuck in an elevator alone with him, you would just hand over your wallet,” Gail Collins writes. “And I’m totally angry at everybody in Congress for trying to pretend that they’re angrier than I am.”

Take Sen. Chuck Grassley, who claims to be upset by bankers but is instead tweeting on about steak dinners. Shouldn't "he be unable to partake because his digestive system was overflowing with bile," Collins asks. Also not angry enough is cool-headed Obama: "Everybody knows constructively channeled anger doesn't really count," she notes. "It's like diet pizza." (More Timothy Geithner stories.)