Secretary Geitner is having a troubling first couple of months. With his tax problems and now AIG's bonus fiasco, Geitner needs some time to have things go smoothly for a while. While some repubs are calling for resignation (waste of time) it does seem some repubs are setting the stage for a future fight. They are keeping the list of Geitner mistakes so in the future if any more happen they can take some air out of Obama's sails by saying Geitner's useless.
How would they do this? Well, the repubs have nothing right now. No platform, no leader, no solutions. Nothing! All they have is the No vote in the senate. So, right now their whole platform is about finding mistakes with Obama/dems and with Obama's big agenda. They want to derail it anyway they can. Even if it sacrifices the country.
So, in the future, if Geitner has made enough mistakes, they lend wieght to their argument to have Obama fire Geitner b/c they weren't really asking for it now. Basically, they are investing now to have a bigger voice later.
Then, if something does happen, having a distracting call for Geitner's resignation, it distracts Obama, the media, and the people from his agenda.
I would say half of politics is investing now (with letters to government agencies, speeches, ets) so that they can refer back to it in the future saying "I did it way back then."
Where were these people back before the Iraq war?
