Locking the Barn Door After the Horse Is Gone

By Fact-esque

That's the specialty-of-the-house in the Bush Age.

A Wall Street consortium led by Goldman Sachs managing director E. Gerald Corrigan recommended new standards Wednesday for monitoring and managing risk, saying the financial industry must be better equipped to contain the type of widespread damage wrought by the credit crunch.

Actually, they don't need "new standards". They just need to replace the old standards the Republicans trashed so contemptuously over the last 30 years.

New standards - finally!

That takes care of the last of the liberal roadblocks stopping social security privatization. It's going to be like Lincoln is President again.