Dept Of Reassurance

By The Daily Dish

Thanks, I guess, for that $700 billion bailout estimate:

“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/09/dept-of-reassurance/211183/