10-11-08--The new approach, which would have government inject capital directly into the nation’s banks, is on that administration officials had publicly opposed until just a few days ago... The surprising turnabout by Treas. Sec. Paulson has raised questions about whether he squandered valuable time by trying to sell Congress a plan that he and other administrations had failed to think through in advance. It also raises questions about whether the administration’s deep philosophical hostility to government ownership in private companies aggravated the financial crisis by delaying rescue action.—NYT A1
--Britain overreached imperially. The US has been doing it financially. ... Right now, it doesn’t seem so ridiculous to ask whether 2008 will come to be seen as the first year of a distinctly non-American century.—NYT WK1
--This guy [GWB] is basically a bum who became president of the United States. –Oliver Stone, NYT AR1
--The major spy character [in LeCarre’s new novel A Most Wanted Man] ...is Guenther Bachmann. Not Smiley: much rougher, more desperate, not a bit worried about doing evil in defense of good because nor it’s 9/11 evil, not Soviet evil. –NYT BKR 10
--Have you been wondering why Republicans have suddenly stopped talking about “family values”? Could it be because a divorced John McCain chose as his running mate a stay-at-work mom who hid her last, unplanned pregnancy... and who has a pregnant, unwed teenager with a self described “**** redneck” of a boyfriend who “does want kids”... and n ex-brother-in-law who tasered her nephew, and a husband with a DUI who loves his country so much he joined a secessionist party? All of which leaves the GOP clinging to one remaining family value—the shotgun wedding! All previous values are null and void because “life happens.”--Doonesbury
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