Washington Post: In Brazil, 'Ill Will' Over O'Neill. There was no good reason for O'Neill to be named Treasury Secretary in the first place, and it is painfully clear that there is no longer any good excuse to let him keep the job. He's done nothing to calm investors in the US; indeed, he's been conspicuously absent as the market crisis has worsened. And now he's causing political and economic damage to a critical economy that's already teetering on the brink. Bush won't fire him (malfeasance isn't a firing offense in this Administration), so he should do the right thing for once and quit.