U.S. Unveils Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants - NYTimes.com

I don't know enough about the facts to have an opinion, but... No matter what is going on this action is the kind of big government nationalization that I never thought the republican party would countenance. It is tactics like this that made me realize I didn't leave the party - the party left me. I now call myself a "Progressive Libertarian."

U.S. Unveils Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants - NYTimes.com

What I want to see:
Small government, small business, small deficits, small environmental footprints. Will it ever happen?