Second all the nice things said about selise.

love molly ivins – reading her made me dread moving to tx a little less.

p.s. thanks for your kind words. blushing here *g*

As for our part in the future: I’m reminded of Mollie Ivins’ book, ‘You Got To Dance With Them What Brung You’…the internet bloggers ‘brung’ Obama; he even admits it. He will need us again in 4 years.

Selise, your intelligence, research and insight are awesome. I appreciate you! (I’m adding your name to my list of favorites for an Atticus Finch Award).

What is that telling us?

i think we’re all trying to figure this one out…. imo, there are somethings we can rule out. change we can believe in being one of them – unless the change comes from us because it certainly doesn’t look like it’s coming from obama’s economic team.

best take on what it’s telling us is, imo, from hugh: The Triumphant Return of the Establishment

but the future is not preordained – we have a role to play too, if we are willing.

The Clinton years, the World Bank, World Trade Organization, and International Monetary Fund all have some very dirty business in their history — economic hit men, jackals, military take-overs funded covertly, etc.

I think my heart and hope do not want to accept the signs my brain is recognizing…

Michael Greenberger, Born’s former top aide at the CFTC, says the Paulson plan merely “circles around” the key reforms that are needed. “The Paulson plan arms the Fed to do rescue efforts. It makes it easier to chase the horse after it’s left the barn, but does nothing to keep the horse inside,” he told me. “Any plan that ignores the fundamental requirements of transparency, capital adequacy, antifraud and antimanipulation authority won’t work. You can throw all the money in the world at stimulus proposals, bailouts, what have you, but if you don’t form a concrete foundation that wards off the kind of conduct that’s taken place up to now, the trust will never be restored. The American public wants to know that when it looks at a balance sheet, it understands what’s happening.” (Jennifer Zuccarelli, a spokeswoman for Paulson, said she could not comment on the record about the criticisms.)

another example of why i like greenberger. wish obama had nominated him for head of the cftc, or even the sec.