Bush seeks $700 billion for bailout

[vermicious knid]

This is a very good piece of writing by Glenn Greenwald.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwa...out/index.html

exerpts:
If there is any "pitchfork moment" -- an episode that understandably would send people into the streets in mass outrage -- it would be this.

generations of Americans are almost certainly going to be severely burdened in untold ways by the events of the last week

an injustice so grave and extreme that it defies words is taking place

the events of the last week are the most momentous events of the Bush era in terms of defining what kind of country we are and how we function -- and before this week, the last eight years have been quite momentous, so that is saying a lot.