In The Subprime Mortgage Industry, Bankers Handed

What Is At Stake In The Debate Over Health Care Is More Than The Mere Crafting Of Policy. The Issue Is Now The Identity Of The Democratic Party.

Bad Government Is The Natural Product Of Rule By Those Who Believe Government Is Bad.

Corruption Is Uniquely Reprehensible In A Democracy Because It Violates The System's First Principle, Which We All Learned Back In The Sunshiny Days Of Elementary School: That The Government Exist To Serve The Public, Not Particular Companies Or Individuals Or Even Elected Officials.

The Great Goal Of The Backlash Is To Nurture A Cultural Class War, And The First Step In Doing So, As We Have Seen, Is To Deny The Economic Basis Of Social Class. After All, You Can Hardly Deride Liberals As Society's "elite" Or Present The Gop As The Party Of The Common Man If You Acknowledge The Existence Of The Corporate World - The Power That Creates The Nation's Real Elite, That Dominates Its Real Class System, And That Wields The Republican Party As Its Personal Political Sidearm.

There Is Much To Dislike About President Obama's Approach To The Financial Crisis. But Opposition, It Seems, Will Have To Come From Somewhere Other Than Conservatism. The Party Out Of Power Is Also A Party Out Of Touch.