The Capital Times posted an editorial titled,
A financial panic, and four who resisted it about Wisconsin members of the House and Senate who voted against the Wall Street Bail Out. Instead of putting the four on some lofty pedestal and defending their position on the bail out with some rhetorical spit-shining, the newspaper simply concludes the four just kept their heads and used common sense. But what was unusual about this editorial is the absence of the partisanship that we’ve come to expect from most in the local media.
Capital Times Editorial Excerpt:
What does that tell us? Common sense, especially when it comes to money matters, is not a Democratic or Republican possession. It is not a liberal or a conservative calculation. It is the product of an ability to thoughtfully assess what is happening, even when others panic.
Feingold, Sensenbrenner, Kagen and Petri displayed it last week. They deserve high marks.
The Capital Times, often accused of being run by loony lefties, could have easily ignored Sensenbrenner and Petri in this editorial, but they chose not to. They could have easily used the divide-and-conquer approach to help further the careers of those they (newspaper) are politically aligned with, but they chose not to. And they could have used their editorial pulpit to add to the local political rancor even more over this explosive issue, but they chose not to. This one editorial is not a mountain, but it is a good step forward in a direction we seldom see from the Fourth Estate. They deserve high marks.
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