An excerpt from former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s “Stress Test” via Tiger Beat on the Potomac via boston.com:

Dealing with Congress, to put it mildly, did not feel like a careful, deliberative journey in search of the best public policy.  I remember going to meet the personable Senator Brown [R-Mass., now running for Senate in N.H.], who had recently arrived in Washington after a campaign spent attacking the ‘Cornhusker Kickback’ … We talked about our kids and about triathlons.

When the conversation finally turned to substance, he said he liked the idea of financial reform and expected to be with us. But without any irony or self-consciousness, he said he needed to protect two financial institutions in Massachusetts from the Volcker Rule’s restrictions. Then he furrowed his brow and turned to his aide. ‘Which ones are they, again?’ he asked. (p. 421)

Please, NH, don’t send Scott back to DC.

(Brown aside for a moment, I love how Geithner introduces the story, “Dealing with Congress, to put it mildly, did not feel like a careful, deliberative journey in search of the best public policy.”  Really?  You don’t say?)