Who do you think was one of the Bush Administration's key players on the economy?
If you say Paulson or Bernanke, you might be half right. But there's another no-name lurking around in the background who tends to be doing the wrong thing at every key moment in the covert history of the Bush (or should we day "Bush League") Republic. His name is Jim Wilkinson.
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Trying hard to tie in a lot of governments and issues, the piece winds up being fragmented and shallow. For example, while I don't doubt what he says about Wilkinson a bit--certainly we've already seen plenty of his type in this administration--he also just as clearly doesn't have the authority to do this himself. And, while the piece effectively links him to Secretary of the Treasury Paulson, it does not show how Paulson managed to accomplish all this damage either. Scooter Libby showed just how much damage a chief of staff could do. Does he allege Wilkinson did this himself? With Paulson? With Paulson's emergency group? With somebody else? All that is less clear, which weakens the piece considerably.
