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October 06, 2008

The crushing defeat and subsequent victory of the $700 billion economic bailout bill last week left both parties pointing fingers, claiming both the failure of conservatism and the triumph of liberalism depending on one’s party or politics. But the Republicans and Democrats doing the most pointing had it completely backwards, as what we saw was the triumph, and then defeat, of both the hard Right and the hard Left – against the big government, corporate center.

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