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Waters Makes Sure MLK Drive Gets Its Due

To be sure, it's been tough for the American people to watch the economy teeter on the brink of collapse. But it's arguably been harder for them to continue to bear the rhetorically cringe-enducing construct of "Main Street v. Wall Street."

Rep. Maxine Waters, the Los Angeles Democrat, made it a little more tolerable on the House floor just now by expanding it a bit. "I could care less about Wall Street," she said of the bailout, before identifying her principal concern as Main Street.

She then added: "And Martin Luther King Drive."

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