Reading through this story, it is clear that at the very least, the Treasury Secretary-designate was massively and egregiously careless in preparing his own taxes. The funny thing, of course, is that most people are expected to do their taxes right–and do so. And if they don’t, they are penalized for it, sometimes quite severely in fact.

Tim Geithner wants us to believe that his errors are TurboTax’s fault and wants to be Treasury Secretary anyway.

Recall the following words from Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address:

. . . those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.

Presumably, Tim Geithner simply did not hear those words. Or perhaps, he just thinks that they don’t apply to him. In any event, just how does he expect to gain trust with the mealy-mouthed “TurboTax ate my return” excuse he is now offering–under oath, one might add–to the United States Senate?