stirring suspicion that the White House and Treasury were over-blowing the magnitude of the crisis to shove through unprecedented intervention in the financial markets that would benefit Wall Street's fat cats
Perhaps chosing someone other than Paulson to spearhead this bail-out would have helped temper this popular thinking and improved the optics.
BTW, ahh crap. It looks like I missed my chance to buy INTC at under $18. At least for now. ;-)