Henninger on Geithner

In a must-read column, Daniel Henninger finds virtue in the Geithner exception. An excerpt:

Washington is falling to the level of a Web-based video game. Everyone is expendable. Treasury secretaries and presidential advisers are a dime a dozen. Put differently: The job-protected and gerrymandered lifers are driving out the competition. More often than not, Washington's worst people are destroying its better people.