Response to Fareed Zakaria

Svend has a good piece about felony convictions and the elections. I just think he misses the race part of the equation. Election 2008

Chris Hayes, on the tax cut deal: “It’s the standard bribery model of legislating that has come to characterize Washington in the era of oligarchy: if you want to put food on the table of the unemployed, you must lavishly wine and dine the CEOs and bankers who laid them off.” [From The Era Of Oligarchy]