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The Arena - Politico's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers Politico.com: "The American model works-- the model according to FDR and JFK.

What's collapsing is the Bush-Cheney caricature of the roaring 20s capitalism that exploded in the Great Depression-- a marketplace without effective regulation, oversight or transparency..

It's been a pervasive perversion of the capitalism that made free markets responsible markets; this is the Administration that let the oil companies write its energy policy in secret.

McCain's problem is that the maverick favored a wild west market, even sponsoring a blanket moratorium on regulation. Two bubbles are bursting simultaneously-- the financial bubble and the Palin bubble."

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The Writers' Cafe: "any rate, I must have had a great morning on the flipping fields, because my stack was really bigger than it had ever been. The rule that Mrs. Rubin enforced was that our baseball cards were to be placed on a shelf above our coats. Kevin, must have gotten to the coats before I did, and he was clearly reaching for my stack of baseball cards! I saw him grabbing for my stack from across the classroom. I remember it as if it was in slow motion because my objective was so crystal clear. I had to get to Kevin and use what ever methods were at my disposal to prevent him from getting my baseball cards firmly into his hands."


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