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Ruth Marcus says the heck with Joe Biden, she wants John McCain to debate Sarah Palin.
Eugene Robinson starts with the fired U.S. Attorney scandal and finishes by saying:
The people who have been running our government for the past eight years have nothing but contempt for government. They believe only in politics and ideology, in that order. First, win elections by any means necessary. Second, once in a position to act in the public good, govern with the ideological conviction that government is either irrelevant or harmful to the public interest.
You can draw a straight line between firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons and turning a blind eye to the ruinous excesses of Wall Street. What's impartial justice against the possibility of gaining political advantage? Why shackle the hallowed free market with government oversight?
And, if you want to draw the line a little further, who cares if the prospective vice president appears to know nothing about anything?
David Brooks is disgusted that the bailout bill failed...but somehow manages to sugarcoat the Republican Party's part in its failure.
Jeffrey R. Lewis believes that the Bush administration has fired the first shot in the "undeclared war on contraception."
Bob Herbert has a question for John McCain:
The question voters should be asking John McCain is whether he has stopped serving his party’s economic Kool-Aid, which has taken such a toll on working families, and is ready to change his ways. Is his sudden populist transformation the real thing or just a mirage?
In the gale force winds of a full-fledged economic hurricane, it’s fair to ask Senator McCain whether he still considers himself a conservative, small government, anti-regulation, free-market zealot. Or whether he’s seen the light.
Bret Stephens doesn't seem to want Sarah Palin to get any questions at Thursday's debate and you can only imagine the outraged column he would write if Palin was asked a series of questions like he wants to be asked of Biden.
Frank Gaffney joins the voices begging, "let Palin be Palin." I concur. Oh, and by the way, Gaffney also says that being from Alaska gives Palin a:
...grounding - by osmosis, if nothing else - in some of the most important foreign and security policy issues of the day...
Seriously.
Donald Lambro says to stop blaming Wall Street for the current economic crisis.
Derrick Z. Jackson thinks that any bailout should be patterned after the 1996 welfare bill...that is, a social bargain with the rich.