Now there’s talk of putting off a decision on a rescue package for Greece until March or even April

Yesterday, when European finance ministers called off their emergency meeting, the ostensible reason was Greece’s failure to specify the sources of a last 325 million euros in budget cuts and the need to have the leaders of the country’s two biggest parties, New Democracy and Pasok, sign pledges to abide by the deal after the country’s April elections. This morning Athens delivered on both those fronts. Turns out that’s not enough—because those two items weren’t the real problem at all.