Brown event kept former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney off the campaign trail". Rudominer said the Coakley campaign lost control of its messaging, allowing Brown to run as a populist hiding his ideological roots and ties to the people responsible for the economic meltdown of 2008.
Ever since, the ideological pendulum has swung leftward: the election of a Democratic Congress in 2006; the economic meltdown last year and the ensuing massive intervention in the private sector by Washington; President Obama's support for tighter regulation of Wall Street and other industries.
This week is reminiscent of the end days of Major's sleaze meltdown, and it's no coincidence that PFI is at the heart of the crumbing ideological shambles.
So the public has every right to ask whether the newly formed Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission — created by Congress to investigate the meltdown — can be counted on to put the public interest ahead of political loyalties, professional ties and ideological biases.
