Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the House Budget Committee Thursday that President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget – “the most expensive in United States history” – would “put the U.S. on an ‘unsustainable’ course if enacted,” reports The Washington Free Beacon.

Geithner also told Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) that although the Obama administration doesn’t have a “definitive solution” to the debt crisis, it definitely knows it doesn’t like the Republican alternative.

Why would Geithner say something like that? That is, why would he openly admit that even though the White House has no solution of its own, it refuses to consider a Republican plan?

Business Insider posits that Geithner may have reached a point in his career where, for a lack of better words, he simply “doesn’t give a $%&.”

What’s going on here? Business Insider has three theories:

One is that Geithner knows his job is almost over. He’ll be gone after the election, full stop. He can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Two is that Geithner has just gotten better at talking. We noted last September how much better Geithner was sounding.

And three, Geithner maybe feels like the administration is winning. The economy is improving. Administration ratings are going up and so on. Finally, he’s feeling good.

All reasonable positions. Indeed, when Geithner first started working for the Obama administration, he seemed nervous, flummoxed, and downright uncomfortable in front of cameras. He definitely seems more confident.

And maybe he believes that the current administration is winning. Maybe he believes all of its economic and political goals are being achieved.

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