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.
>> Paulson and everyone else said they wanted congressional oversight from the start
I don’t understand. You say Paulson (and, by extension, you) want congressional oversight.
Well, they’re getting it. Right now. At the earliest stages of implementation.
But Paulson (and, by extension, you) are unhappy with that.
So — either Paulson (and, by extension, you) VALUE the opinion of Congress as overseers, and so are happy to let Congress deliberate on the bailout, and then oversee it.
Or — you DON’T value or want Congressional input, which takes us back to the “no review” clause. And that, despite your claims, makes Paulson (and, by extension, you) a liar.
Which is it?
Paulson (and, by extension, you) can’t have it both ways.