I’m curious. Why is it that every commenter here has decided that they should hide behind an anonymous mask, a pseudonym? Are you people worth reading if you are unwilling to announce to the world who you are? I’m doubting it.

For the record. I believe that CAP is a valuable inside-the-beltway feedsource for information. I do not for one second believe they are as honest as, say, http://www.911truth.org. But telling the truth isn’t the business they are in. What we really need in this country is what Jefferson proposed two centuries ago, i.e. a “revolution” every generation. We are becoming the laughing stock of the planet. Imagine Europeans looking in on this discussion and questioning whether they are going to bet on Wall Street’s rackets. I’d guess they are going to gain in skepticism, but Bernie Madoff makes my odds very long on this bet.

Where’s the reformers in this crowd? Yglesias started doing a good thing by pointing out the obvious. Ms. Palmieri reinforced the view of most cognoscenti that America is hopelessly corrupt and mired in a navel-gazing extravagance of self-delusion from which it will not save itself without some serious adult supervision.

Supervision which, BTW, is certainly not on offer from the Obama Foxworthy Henhouse Cluck-Ster Flock (OFHCSF, aka the Cabinet).

And in the media? Spam sushi, ferchissake? Who knew that Obama was nothing more than a sandwich board for the Hormel Corporation?

Heaven help us. Our government isn’t up to the job of fighting corruption. Sadly, no. The government is the very definition of corruption. Just call the sales department at Hormel for confirmation.

And I stand by my words, Raymond Duray, Bend, OR

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” — J.M. Keynes