Toxic language

As Pelosi and other reps got up to the podium on Monday to announce that the bailout wasn't going to be waved through by Congress, Republicans and Democrats were having more identity crises but still deliberately disinforming on the issues within the frame of the unwelcome 'nationalisation' of (yet more) toxic assets being somehow redolent of 'socialism'.
The Times didn't help either today with their cartoon showing the monkey Bush as part of the Marx-Lenin-Stalin state-socialist line. A facile comparison.

"You were being asked to choose between financial meltdown on the one hand and taxpayer bankruptcy and the road to socialism on the other and you were told do it in 24 hours."
Republican Congressman Jeb Hensarling (Texas 5th district)