Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Con-SER-va-tives will insist to their dying days they had nothing to do with the mortgage catastrophe, but the movement's one traditional hallmark -- prudence -- got swept away in their desire to help the hyperrich and stick it to the government. So regulators became palsy-walsies of the regulated, and looked the other way as the Mozilos cleaned out the government kitties. The devotion to big business and the superwealthy is why the con-SER-va-tives' climb back will be a long and painful one.
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