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The Obama Administration's Plan Is To Have The Federal Reserve Regulate Banks That Might Pose A 'systemic Risk' If They Were To Fail.

There Are Few Things In Politics More Annoying Than The Right's Utter Conviction That It Owns The Patent On The Word 'freedom' That When Its Leaders Stand Up For The Rights Of Banks To Be Unregulated Or Capital Gains To Be Untaxed, That It Is Actually And Obviously Standing Up For Human Liberty, The Noblest Cause Of Them All.

Just As The Financial Crisis Has Created Toxic Assets And 'zombie' Financial Institutions, So Has It Transformed Conservatism Into A Movement Of The Living Dead.

The Revival Of The Right Is As Extraordinary As It Would Be If The Public Had Demanded Dozens Of New Nuclear Plants In The Days After The Three Mile Island Disaster; If We Had Reacted To Watergate By Making Richard Nixon A National Hero.

Our Laws Governing Lobbying And Campaign Contributions Have Struck The Right Balance Between The Wishes Of The People And Those Of Private Industry, So Why Are We So Quick To Doubt That The Same Great Results Can Be Achieved By Putting The Government's Justice-dealing Branch On The Same Market-based Course?