Terrance Heath  Two Men Who Would Be King  Filed By Terrance
Heath | September 26, 2008 3:00 PM | comments  Filed in: Living,
Politics Tags: congressional bailouts, economic bailout,
election 2008, financial crisis, John McCain, Phil Gramm  This
is a post about two headlines and one scary story.  Headline
one:  Bailout is financial equivalent of the Patriot Act  The
passage is stunning:  "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to
the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to
agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law
or any administrative agency," the original draft of the
proposed bill says.  And with those words, the Treasury
secretary - whoever that may be in a few months - would be
vested with perhaps the most incredible powers ever bestowed on
one person over the economic and financial life of the United
States. It is the financial equivalent of the Patriot Act, after
9/11.   Headline two:  McCain Campaign Can't...Won't...Rule Out
Gramm As Treasury Secretary  For those of