My only two requests would be:

1. Feel free to denounce the firms poised to benefit from the Paulson plan, but be sure to denounce them for the right reason: not for being “greedy capitalist bastards,” but for being hypocrites about it. True “greedy capitalist bastards” — like me — would let them fail.

2. Let’s trace this phenomenon back to its true root cause: sixty years of relentless liberal government policy — from the Federal Housing Act to the tax code to the Interstate Highway System to urban renewal to Fannie and Freddie (and beyond…) — geared to convincing the American people that the only proper definition of The American Dream™ is homeownership, and that everyone, absolutely everyone, should seek to own their own home (and that every firm and politician should seek to enable them to do so), literally at all costs. That was the feet of clay upon which the crumbling statue was built. If there’s one thing this situation has not been, it’s “a free market.”