Megan McArdle: Obama too sunny?

This blog entry was included in James Taranto's Best of the Web Today and is worth a read.

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/03/obama_too_sunny.php

Highlights:

Having defended Obama's candidacy largely on his economic team, I'm having serious buyer's remorse. Geithner, who is rapidly starting to look like the weakest link, is rattling around by himself in Treasury. Meanwhile, the administration is clearly prioritized a stimulus package that will not work without fixing the banks over, um, fixing the banking system. Unlike most fiscal conservatives, I'm not mad at him for trying to increase the size of the government; that's, after all, what he got elected promising to do. But he also promised to be non-partisan and accountable, and the size and composition stimulus package looks like just one more attempt to ram through his ideological without much scrutiny, with the heaviest focus on programs that will be especially hard to cut.