PadreBrian, I agree that Bush was very culpable. Obama is reacting to a really nasty situation. He’s making mistakes in my judgment, but I don’t honestly get the same sense of “me and my buddies first” that I got from the Bush group. I’ll wait a while before pronouncing Obama guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Now Larry Summers is a disaster, and….
I think your characterization of “mob and corporations” is pretty close, except I would add a professional class of politicians and lobbyists and consultants that has its grubby fingers all over the national economy’s controls. They take in influences from the rabble, and money from special interests, and take a little off the top in return for helping people arrange to be fed from the public trough.
