I am fairly new here (as an active member, anyway), but any of you who know me, your impression is probably that I'm some infuriating closet conservative, or at least an annoying DLC centrist, since all I've been doing comment-wise is generally arguing in favor of the bailout.
Despite appearances, though, I consider myself a solid progressive on war, energy and socio-economic issues, and my anger at the Bush administration probably equals most of yours' on any given day.
But I am afraid that we have to do this bailout. I wanted to write a diary summarizing my arguments, but when I woke up this morning, behold, Nicolas Kristof, my favorite reporter, had already done most of it for me. On the other side of the jump thingy is a summary and a link.
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