Now that Hank Paulson has transformed the US Treasury into Goldman Sachs South–buying, selling, lending to and merging companies–it should be no surprise

Washington Dispatch: John McCain apparently thinks so, naming Meg Whitman as a possible treasury secretary pick at Tuesday's debate.
By Stephanie Mencimer
s. And clearly, by growing eBay into a billion-dollar company during her 10-year tenure as CEO, Whitman made many of those work-from-home jobs possible. But just because she got rich with one of the few early Internet companies to survive the dot-com bubble doesn't mean she's fit to run the Treasury Department.

Warren Buffett's name was mentioned during last night's debate by both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama as a potential Treasury Secretary, but it's hard to imagine Buffett would ever give up Berkshire Hathaway and Omaha and relocate to Washington.
NBC's Tom Brokaw asked the two presidential candidates who they might have in mind to take on the "greatly expanded" powers of the Treasury Secretary, on the assumption Henry Paulson won't stay in the post.
hite House job next month, Buffett won't be accepting any full-time employment offers.

Meg Whitman spoke at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. (Photo: Associated Press) John McCain gave former eBay chief Meg Whitman a

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AFP) � Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain Tuesday agreed that one of the world's richest

Washington Dispatch: John McCain apparently thinks so, naming Meg Whitman as a possible treasury secretary pick at Tuesday's debate.