Annals of Party Polarization
You have no idea what you’re asking me to do. It takes me forty-eight hours to get the Republicans to flush the toilet.
Harry Reid, on Sept. 17, 2008, in the meeting where Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke first asked Congressional leaders for “several hundred billion dollars” to buy toxic bank assets.
From James Stewart’s fascinating account in The New Yorker.
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Why have a link when only subscribers can read the story you are relating?
Posted by: wagonjak | September 27, 2009 03:35 PM
Republican envirnomentalists? If it’s yellow…
Posted by: MH | September 28, 2009 10:10 AM