Taxpayer Bailout

The government says they want to help? Okay, let's really put the I.R.S. to work. The President should direct that agency, right now, to identify all those who profited from the root cause.

These demands will be met with howls of outrage, a renting of pinstripes. It will require a Congress, lathered with Wall Street contributions, to insist on a deal that makes sense.