Friday, April 30, 2010

"Calling in the clowns"

By Wesley Pruden

"Henry Kissinger once observed that it was too bad that Iran and Iraq couldn't both lose their war with each other. It's tempting to apply that to the principals in the face-off between the U.S. Senate and Goldman Sachs.


Who could choose between the arrogance of, say, "Fabulous Fab," the Goldman Sachs broker who boasts of piling up millions of profits in worthless mortgages sold to the poor who couldn't afford them, and the obscene demagoguery of Sen. Carl Levin, the fabulously fatuous chairman of the Senate subcommittee on investigations and the tormentor of not-so-innocent stockbrokers."

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