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In The Subprime Mortgage Industry, Bankers Handed Out Iffy Loans Like Candy At A Parade Because Such Loans Meant Revenue And, Hence, Bonuses For Executives In The Here-and-now.

We Are Watching Industries Crumble, Wall Street Firms Disappear, Unemployment Spike, And Unprecedented Government Intervention. And Our Designated Opinion Leaders Want To Know: Is Obama Up This Week? Is He Down? And Is His Leadership Style More Like Bill Clinton's, Or Abraham Lincoln's?

There Is Something Uniquely Depressing About The Fact That The National Portrait Gallery’s Version Of The Barack Obama “hope” Poster Previously Belonged To A Pair Of Lobbyists. Depressing Because Mr. Obama’s Washington Was Not Supposed To Be The Lobbyists’ Washington, The Place We Learned To Despise During The Last Administration.

Media Bias Has Been A Favorite Theme Of The Right For Decades, Of Course.

Privatizing Bits Of The Prison Industry Was A Step In The Right Direction, But What We Didn't Have - Until Recently - Were Proper Instruments For Incentivizing The Judiciary. That's What The 'kids For Cash' Judges Were Apparently Experimenting With.