Here We Go Again -- Two More Administration "Appointees" Withdraw

Now there's two more withdrawing from consideration for posts in the Obama administation -- Sanjay Gupta will not be becoming Surgeon General (he was never actually appointed though the post was said to be his) and perhaps more important, the beleaguered Tim Geithner has lost his top deputy choice, Annette Nazareth, who also withdrew.

Maybe it's all because of the administration's more rigorous vetting and determination to keep out those with lobbying ties -- good things both. But once the media has a story line it doesn't drop it easily and the Obama story line here is increasingly an administration having trouble getting off the ground. Particularly as that affects Geither -- who needs to engender confidence -- that's not a good thing.