-------------- Original message -------------- From: sawicky at verizon.net
> The left has gotten a lot of encouragement from some pretty considerable
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> brains -- Galbraith, Dean Baker, Stiglitz -- to reject the deal.
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Doug Henwood
> > Sent: 09/29/08 03:16 pm
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] House rejects bailout
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> > On Sep 29, 2008, at 2:49 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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> > > How long did you pause before accepting the Eliotian cliche, "The
> > > last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for
> > > the wrong reason"?
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> > I hadn't realized that that was a cliche - I can't imagine that one in
> > ten thousand would recognize it. That aside, they did it out of
> > ideological consistency - government bad, markets good. The left,
> > which presumably doesn't share that worldview, is operating out of
> > what? Some emotional and braindead anti-elitism.
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> > Doug
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