The Washington Post ombudsman has responded to the outcry over George Will’s faulty global warming column.

Huffington Post: “John Gibson Did Not Compare Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum.”

There seems to be a pretty clear realization now that the hammering the big bank stocks are taking over the last few days is not simply a matter of their battered economic condition but more

immediately because of the growing likelihood of nationalization. But buried down in an article in today’s Journal is this.

At a senior leadership meeting yesterday, Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis told bank leaders (according to a source in the room) that government officials have assured him that nationalization “isn’t on the table.”

He said “he has [also] urged the government to say this publicly.”

I’ll bet he has.

Now, under the present circumstances, I would not take anything Mr. Lewis says at face value. But the comment can speak for itself.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who was elevated to that post from lieutenant governor when Blago was impeached, is calling on Sen. Roland Burris to resign:

Coleman: Votes I said were legal should now be thrown out.

Last fall Sir Allen went on CNBC for a brief segment. Most of the attention has been focused on him saying it was fun being a billionaire, but I find the rest of the interview — where’s he’s bragging about how they didn’t get killed in the subprime debacle because they never felt like they could properly assess the “risk” — far more entertaining and ironic: