September 29, 2008 9:53AM 

# I Stand Corrected 

By [Michael D. Tanner](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-d-tanner) 

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In a [blog ](https://www.cato.org/author/mtanner/)last week, I suggested that after years of carrying water for the Bush administration’s [big-government](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=cats&scid=37&pid=1441337) agenda, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R‑Oh) had “suddenly found a spine” and learned to say no. Apparently not. Accepting little more than a fig-leaf of change, Boehner now has [endorsed](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE48S03I20080929?virtualBrandChannel=10112) the president’s $700 billion bail-out of Wall Street.

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