Following Althouse on Blago's appearance on the View.

and Rosenbaum blowing up Obama's ...including his followup post.

Claudia Rosett I think nails the Obama thing:

'new era of responsibility” — the advance-leaked theme of his inaugural address (though Bill Safire makes a good case that the address actually had no memorable theme). Is he talking about individual responsibility? (It has a great track record; I’m for it.) Or is he talking about collective responsibility? (Apart from providing for the common defense, it is far more problematic). Does he expect us to be responsible for paying our own bills? Or does he expect us to be responsible for paying each other’s bills? There is a big difference.'

'New era of responsibility' for other people's bills is it.

Ricardo Caballero appears to have nailed the credit crisis best response.

I hope Dick Morris isn't right.

A professor at the University of Chicago offers a couple of appropriate options for dealing with the credit crisis. The bad bank option was also discussed in the Wall Street Journal today.

"Possibly the best, and certainly the first truly great, inaugural address, Jefferson's in 1801."

Glenn Reynolds links to an argument for a corporate tax rate of zero as an economic stimulus.

I have to get into the discussion of the 'Palestinians' and Israel 'with' Ron Rosenbaum' and Megan McArdle. Mark Twain would be impressed with the renewed interest in the 'Holy Land.'

I was originally impressed with this Geithner guy, now not so much. He took off, for child care, from his 1040, the cost of sending a kid to camp. BS; it isn't an applicable charge to the credit. The credit tapers at his income level, 300K+. He didn't pay M-care and Social Security on the income from the IMF. I do my taxes; and I know that. A person is as likely to 'do their taxes' without tax preparation software as a student is to do a term paper with a typewriter. Anytime you change a number this triggers a cascade of changes which it makes the preparation time 3 x as long. The IRS adds the numbers itself; so he would have heard from them earlier otherwise. What he would have done is overridden the advice of the software. A candidate for Secretary of Treasury makes these 'innocent mistakes;' come 'on. Obama's comments are in the service of denial. Free Exchange, link left, has some other critical views.