In the Category of "Pithiest Treatment of Paulson's Bailout Proposal," the Winner Is...

...The Wall Street Journal! Per the paper's analysis of the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion mortgage buyout plan, currently under review in Congress: "The debate could expose a peculiar irony in the government's rescue planning, because taxpayers are now both creditors and debtors in the housing mess."

Both creditors and debtors. Peculiar irony, indeed.