Is it better to live life on your feet than on your knees?

Evidently if you are Treasury Secretary Paulson trying times mean one must sometimes grovel:

…in the Roosevelt Room after the session, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for the package over what Ms. Pelosi derided as a Republican betrayal.

“I didn’t know you were Catholic,” Ms. Pelosi said, Continue reading “Is it better to live life on your feet than on your knees?”