Ezra rails against the executive compensation limits scam:
Limits to executive compensation are a feel-good provision with little real world relevance or impact, and while it would be nice to have them in the bill, no one should be fooled into thinking them a high-level priority, nor believing that a compromise where compensation limits feature as a key Democratic boast suggests anything other than a total collapse in the negotiations.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/09/not-encouraging/211279/
