HEH: Why isn’t our politicianz edukated? Plus, Joe Biden and trial lawyers.

THIRTY MISSING investigators.

IN THE MAIL: Kori Schake’s Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance.

KATIE GRANJU: The ultimate upshot of the Palin email hacking story.

INSTA-POLL:

JONAH GOLDBERG: “We shouldn’t let invocation of the Great Depression — and our fear of it — justify all of this New Deal talk. Say it with me: The New Deal prolonged the Great Depression. In fact, if anything it was the New Deal itself that made the Great Depression ‘Great.'”

The New Deal’s successes were political, not economic.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: The Scorching of Georgia.

ARNOLD KLING: An Alternative to the Wall Street Bailout.

REALLY, they’re not even trying to hide it any more.

MORE ON Chrysler’s electric-car plans.

OUCH: “I understand the focus on bumper stickers. Too much transparency if the faculty parking lot has rows and rows of Obama stickers.” A rather dubious rule, though, to put it mildly.

OOPS: Obama on Wikipedia: How’s that “anybody can edit it” thing working out? Screenshot not racy, but perhaps NSFW and certainly tacky.

Related item here.

J.D. JOHANNES: How Not to Fight a Counterinsurgency.

HEH: “Surely in the interest of transparency and conflict of interest, any Senator, Republican or Democrat, who accepted money from Freddie and Fannie, or any of the imperiled investment houses, should recuse themselves from the present hearings—but then there might not be a quorum.”

WHY NOT SOLVE THE MORTGAGE CRISIS by giving money to homeowners? “So, instead of the massive moral hazard — and general unseemliness — of putting taxpayer money on the line to bail out Wall Street banks and brokers at the top end of the pyramid, why not aim at the broad BASE of the pyramid?”

UPDATE: Lots more from Arnold Kling.

MARC DANZIGER is having problems with Verizon.

MCCAIN VS. THE NEW YORK TIMES: Not backing down.

READER BO MCILVAIN EMAILS: “When a 90% discount means your product is overpriced TENFOLD.” Heh. And Ouch.

TOM MAGUIRE responds to Marc Ambinder on Obama and Ayers. “And the suggestion is not that Obama endorses Ayers’ domestic terrorism; the suggestion is that Obama and Ayers share a hard-left educational philosophy, that Obama has an odd taste in friends, and that Obama has been lying about his past.”

KARL OKAMOTO ON KEEPING IT SIMPLE:

When I meet someone who claims to live by just a few “tried and true” simple rules, I tend to wrinkle my nose. How unsophisticated! Un-nuanced! Anti-intellectual, even! After all, the world is a complicated place. Life by platitude must, therefore, oversimplify, over-generalize and exclude the gray areas that matter.

Oddly, though, many of the most successful people I know – successful in all kinds of ways – from making fortunes to finding inner peace—share a certain certainty about things. They have a few simple rules, and they live by them.

Follow the link for application to the current crisis.

WHY WASHINGTON HATES WALL STREET: “On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.”

THE HILL: Pelosi Won’t Jump Alone. “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is telling Democrats that she will not support President Bush’s $700 billion bailout of the financial sector unless there is significant Republican support for the controversial plan. . . . Republicans, for their part, say it’s time for Democrats to acknowledge that they run Congress.”

ERIC POSNER: Does Congress think that Paulson didn’t ask for enough power? “You might think so from reading the Dodd bill and the news accounts.”

COMPLAINTS OF voter suppression efforts in Ohio.

THE FBI IS INVESTIGATING WALL STREET FINANCIAL HOUSES: “For what, I have no idea. Is stupidity a federal offense? And if so, when do they investigate congress?”