Tim Geithner - why did some liberal Senators vote against his confirmation as Treasury Sec?

Integrity?

More interesting question is why 10 Republicans voted for confirmation.

I have no idea.

Geithner's a very centrist, middle-of-the-road man in his politics - and he's got the aura of experience/expertise due to his previous posts. I suppose that for a centrist Republican, he would be a fair enough fit (or at least not one to actively block) - a better fit than for someone like Bernie Sanders, actually.

That just leaves the tax issue. I think there's obviously a lot of Democrats who would've been indignant about it if it had been about a Republican, but didn't care much now; just like there were a lot of Republicans who would have shrugged it off in a Bush appointee but now were indignant. So that covers most of the Senate. But just like there was a couple of guys on the very left who were as indignant about it in a moderate Democrat as they would have been about a Republican, maybe there was a similar couple of Senators in the political center who recognized that they would have shrugged it off in a Bush appointee and decided to shrug it off for an Obama one too.

He's also a blatant tax cheat and liar who has been confirmed as Treasury Secretary.

I don't understand how anyone, in good concious, could have voted to confirm him.

It's outrageous.

Yeah? Well, don't forget, he's a very competent tax cheat and liar.

Yep. The very epitome of a tchnocrat.

Hey, something we can agree on. And yeah, I'd rather have seen someone else too.

(Of course, we won't agree in the least on who that someone else should have been )

Probably not, but you never know.