Ad Libbing, Ad hoc

I appreciate that nobody knows what the hell they're doing about the economic crisis, but if their intention is to perpetuate a leadership vacuum, they should just kindly get out of the way instead. I mean I can understand (but not condone) wanting to hide out for the next eight weeks, kicking the can down the road for someone else to deal with, but this see-saw crap is starting to annoy me. At the very least, he should start keeping his mouth shut so it's not so obvious that he's ad-libbing this whole thing. When the crisis is, in significant part, one of confidence, broadcasting that you're making it up as you go along just seems like the wrong move.

"Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, less than a week after indicating he would let the Obama administration decide how to use the second half of the $700 billion financial fund, is considering asking for the money."

http://www.bloomberg.com