scorecard

"After nearly eight years of voting in virtual lock step with President Bush on everything from tax cuts to torture, House Republicans decided on Monday to break ranks on the survival of the nation's financial system." New York Times, 9.29.08

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House Republicans have placed ideology and/or their self-interested hopes for re-election before the public good. One hopes an invisible hand materializes to turn these private vices into public virtues.

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Has there every been a lamer lame duck than G. W. Bush? Has a Speaker of the House ever been more inept than Nancy Pelosi? 

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Irony: Hank Paulson (former Sachs Goldman CEO) can't close the deal.