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Sep 23, 2008

More from Glenn Greenwald

by Liberty and Power

This past weekend I recommended Glenn Greenwald's superb article against the Paulson plan.

Greenwald is always worth reading, not least for his wry observations on the growing right-wing opposition to this proposal. He welcomes their new-found resistance to unconstrained executive authority but points to their amazing hypocrisy on this matter.

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Eric Hanneken - 9/23/2008

I agree with Glenn Greenwald, but if the result of all of this politicking is a $700 billion bailout *with* oversight from Congress, I'd still consider that a loss.