Geithner: unemployment could rise

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the U.S. unemployment rate could rise for two months before it drops, potentially deepening Democrats' problems in the November congressional elections.
"It's possible you're going to have a couple of months where it goes up," Geithner said on ABC's "Good Morning America" interview broadcast on Tuesday and taped a day earlier.
"But what we expect to see ... is an economy that's gradually healing. Of course we want to do what we can to reinforce that process because it's not growing back as quickly as we'd like."

I wish it would rise by one person, Turbo-Tax Timmy to be exact. Everything he says is preempted in my mind by the words "tax cheat." It has the effect of discounting everything else he has to say, even if he has a point. That's not an admirable trait in a Treasury Secretary of the United States.