posted by permission of Nicholas Benton, owner/editor of the Falls Church News Press Benton anticipates today's headlines on Wachovia in his latest Op Ed.

Bernanke's Good Advice

For those who blame Sen. Chuck Schumer for the failure of the IndyMac Bank in California last weekend, alleging his identification of the bank's troubles triggered a run, what are they saying now about the prominent front page headline and story in yesterday's Washington Post baring Wachovia Bank's dirty laundry? What are they saying about the fact the FBI has now launched an investigation into IndyMac?

Those who urge us to "shoot the messenger" divert attention from the realities of the unraveling U.S. economy, including the role of predator lending in it, and are appealing to those incapable or unwilling to accept things as they actually are.

So it was with President Bush's lame attempt on national TV Tuesday to blame the nation's economic woes on "psychology." This, of course, comes from the man who sold us "weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," "we don't use torture," and other bald-faced lies.