I’m sick of Wall Street/Main Street. Never was a big fan of metonymy. The New Democratic Party in Canada has been using kitchen tables/boardroom tables instead. Much nicer.

Also, as the vote-down of the bailout has shown, the House of Representatives has some democratic accountability. The Senate, where the bailout vote was in the bag, does not. We should be calling them the House of Commons and House of Lords, respectively.

And the President? Please, our system has long accorded the President monarch-approximating levels of deference. We should be calling Bush the Queen instead.

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