See "Striking resemblance."

Does he know what he is doing?

Kari,

When the family of Senator Bill Frist is able to sell a hospital chain to public employees (as the major class of individual beneficiaries) via KK&R what am I to think?

"the world's largest leveraged buy-out"

The Oregon Investment Council has a long history with KK&R.

More particularly, the anti-capitalist (or anti-corporate) notions of the left seem to fade into oblivion when the beneficial interest of the beast (the ideological devil) come under the control of the anti-devils?

When the link between the use of sovereign tax authority and legislative power to create a single investment bank controlled by a consortium of state treasurers, joining hands with JP Morgan like they are engaged in a sloppy passionate kiss, to make health care fully and totally controlled . . . what am I to think of the political calls to help the poor, poor kids that need health care paid for by the state? I see inefficiency and waste as far as the eye can see, and the extraction of monopolistic rent.

Your asserted unabashed partisan focus is not ideologically pure in the slightest, unless the purity is that of anarchy of the powers that be and the creation of purely arbitrary rule.

"Critics fear this flurry of deals may contain the seeds of a bust"

I would say chaos, like that of the collapse of the Albania Pyramid scheme. The extremists must be unwitting, or really good at lying . . . in bed with their claimed enemy, lost in lust for cash and power; dangerously so. If I had the knowledge that you were witting then I might have confidence that you might at least have the skill set to negotiate/pilot your way out of the eventual collapse. I tend to think you will be out snookered, like The Joker; perhaps you represent Chaos in a Batman episode.