Bu$hCo admits FDR's New Deal is still working!

I couldn't help but think of Richard Viguerie's Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause when I read The Anniston Star's Editorial Saved by the New Deal: Conservatives and policies. The Star is dead on yet "conservative crazies" will never, ever admit that their foolishness is flawed. They'll blame Bu$hCo for not being conservative enough. If and when St. John McCain loses it is because he wasn't conservative enough. It is never the view they hold but rather people or politics or ... I've blogged on Richard Viguerie previously in case you need an update. He's a classic in that he's able to blend his movement conservatism with some profiteering. At least conservatism is able to generate something constructive. And don't buy Dick's book please! John Gunn

UPDATE ~ High noon on March 30, 2008 - AP/MSNBC's Most sweeping changes since Great Depression: Proposal will give the Federal Reserve new regulatory power had me thinking tht perhaps Bu$hCo's Treasury Department was showing some courage on the issue. Why the Paulson Plan is DOA by Michael Mandel in Business Week brought me back to reality. Finally, Loren Steffy, the Houston Chronicle's business columnist, serves up a skewering of "Manhattan Paulie". Is this guy the Wolcott of Wall Street? He writes

Through it all, Paulson brushed aside worries about the housing market and the economy until they became a well-developed crisis. With Bear Stearns facing collapse, Manhattan Paulie finally donned his hero's hat, ready to whip up a regulatory response. In that, he offers sound reasoning. If Wall Street is going to benefit from the Federal Reserve's support, as banks do, then it should have to submit to the same regulations as banks. Perhaps the swinging pendulum knocked some sense into his gleaming noggin.