[MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Arlo] 
> bailouts started under Bush, I remind you, with no to little opposition from those "base" now 
> claiming such things smack of Hitlerism. 

But don't forget this shining moment: 

" July 26, 2008 


WASHINGTON — When three-quarters of House Republicans balked Wednesday at a housing bill certain to become law, they were signaling three things at once: an ideological opposition to government involvement in the markets, a fiscal objection to writing a blank check that could cost taxpayers dearly if the condition of the mortgage finance system turns much worse and a political judgment that this was a moment to demonstrate their independence from President Bush. " 
C raig