[Nervous Tick]

>> that is mere legal boilerplate

That’s your opinion. I disagree. I think Paulson doesn’t want to be bothered with justification as his pals game the system to unload their toxic crap on the taxpayer at top dollar. Prove I’m wrong.

>> Oversight is with *congress*, where it belongs

And they’re performing the role! Congress (particularly the Republican part) is exercising its oversight. You should be happy they’re killing the idiotic piece of shit. Smarter people than you (along with 70% of the electorate) are calling “bullshit” on this crappy turkey and killing it. Since you’re a big believer in Congressional oversight you should be overjoyed.

[JasonC]

Paulson and everyone else said they wanted congressional oversight from the start, everyone understands it, it was never anything but a smear. You believe it because you want a stick to beat the proposal with, that is all.

The patient is lying on the table having a heart attack, and you are impugning the attending physician's motives and demanding he remove the heart and burn it as the cause of the problem, while objecting to needles as painful. It is just nuts that rational men have to beg you to let them save your sorry backside.

[JasonC]

The electorate will not applaud your listening to them or your grand courage, when your preferred policy blows up in your face and theirs, and buries them in the rubble. All that matters is a sound policy, and yours is not sound.