This will be a new feature on the blog. Every morning I'll offer a quick summary of one (1) major paper's op-ed page. This is largely because I think that every morning I should be reading one (1) major newspaper's op-ed page, and figure I won't actually do it unless I give myself some sort of outside incentive to do so. Which is, in this case, the fure of you, my harsh and unlikable readership. Here on Day One (1), It seems only fitting to start with The New York Times: • Paul Krugman: Henry Paulson's --and thus, the administration's -- mortgage-relief plan isn't better than nothing. It's basically nothing, and is meant to disrupt the passage of actual mortgage relief plans currently floating through the House. • Mike McConnell: I want to spy on you, and I don't want to have to fill out any paperwork before I do it. • Roger Cohen: Cohen, somewhat surprisingly, gets the must-read of the day, for publishing an op-interview with Barack Obama proving that Obama is, in fact, eminent foreign relations scholar G. John Ikenberry. This is a comforting fact. And the Barack-suit is, you'll have to admit, a very clever disguise.
