It’s looking more like Bush rather than Snow….

Shouldn’t the word “runs” be in quotes?

“I am not a finance expert, but what makes this episode so outrageous is that even a casual observer can see what a taxpayer ripoff Cerberus appears to be getting away with–but Congress and the Bush administration somehow cannot or will not.”

Maybe he’s just being nice, doing his public duty to not call out lying from high office, and mis-use of government funds. It should be pretty obvious ‘why’ the bush administration is doing what it’s doing. How many examples do you need to see?

But there is a deeper point hidden in what he’s saying, that relates to one of the first comments. And that is the disconnect between the truth (powerful wall st. players bagging big time gains through federal largesse after having bank rolled a ‘free market’ presidency — and no I am not surprised by that collection of ideas) and the behavior of congress, which indeed is to whine on the back pages of newspapers, and in front of cameras to berate captive witnesses, and then to go down and vote to ensure that the handouts continue. The question isn’t ‘why is the bush admin doing what it’s doing’ that one is easy and obvious. The question, the real question, is why is there no opposition.

Whatever the answer, the fact is there isn’t. And what that spells is a new era in american politics one of un-restrained control of government by select individual economic actors of unparalleled wealth and power.

Get used to it, ‘cuz you will live with it for the rest of your lives. Your chance to do something about it has passed.

Sounds about right to me.

And Mark W. makes a good point, I think. Maybe you are just in it to bait us angry hater-types though BR. I understand if you are.