“On his post-bailout vote show, Lou Dobbs, the jowly arbiter of middle-American anger, called it ’stunning setback for voters who believed the House would stand up for the American people and refuse to be bought out by the Bush administration, political elites, and Wall Street.’ True, he always talks like that. But this time he was actually expressing what voters thought. A Tuesday CNN poll pegged the proportion of Americans who thought the bailout was ‘for Wall Street’ at 53 percent. Only 40 percent thought it was passed to ‘help ordinary taxpayers.’ Obama and McCain are stuck in another trap. They voted for the bailout. They can’t run against it. They went all in, literally, and now they’re stuck selling its merits while frowning and promising that it was the only choice they had.” (10/09/08)