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The Rude Pundit
Feingold must be stunned, like a soldier leading his machine gun-toting men into battle who then run screaming away from the rock-throwing enemy.

I am not a cynic. My basic assumption is that almost every politician is a sincere patriot, and that those with whom I disagree simply have a different idea as to how best to serve the country. But under the current administration, I cannot avoid noticing that all the actions make perfect sense if the people involved are 100% corrupt, holding office for no reason but to steal all they can, and no sense whatsoever under any other interpretation.

This, by the way, gives me hope. I’m a capitalist to the core, I have high hopes that greed can save us, if not by bringing down the greedy then by the law of deviation to the mean ensuring that maximizing evil is less profitable than maximizing profit.