It’s shameless politics, all of it. Now you’ve got Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, a site with headlines such as “How the Democrats caused the financial crisis,” spouting about limitations on executive power. However, here’s the best part:

It’s absurd, and at its heart, it’s un-American, in the sense that America exists precisely because of our desire to rein in government and make it accountable to the people.

Since when did anyone on the Right give a damn about accountability? Hell, they’ve got SuperLawyerSquad™ up in Alaska to prevent any sort of accountability being rendered on Palin. They ignored subpoenas in the U.S. Attorney firings. Not one head rolled for WMDs. Accountability? Seriously? You’re going to use the world “accountable” when talking about what you want from the government?

Like I’ve said, the GOP is good at lockstep; they know when to get in line and who behind. We are in deep lame duck territory with Bush, and the McCain message is “We’re Democrats Until Noted Otherwise.” The right is following the beat of it’s new drummer, good little soldiers, and trying to make people believe they care about executive power-grabs and accountability for one’s actions. “We aren’t the ones responsible for the past eight years, so are the other republicans”. Those topics must be polling well.

Final point:

In the short run, we need a lot more accountability in government, not less, in order to ensure that the long-term goal of getting Washington out of private lending policy reaches success.  This plan goes in the wrong direction.

Translation: we must pretend to be change-minded Democrats until we get elected, so we may continue the policies that allowed something like this to happen.

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