Conservatives who want to back this bailout should think twice, lest they earn the wrath of my fearsome new colleague Matthew "The Scalpel" Vadum. He gives it to Larry Kudlow good, concluding, "The late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini would be proud that decades after his former subjects hung his lifeless body upside down on meat hooks at an Esso gasoline station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto that his once-discredited ideas had become so popular in America's corridors of power."