During the Bush years, it often seemed that on any given day all the leading conservative commentators were reading from the same list of talking points — because they were.

But without a conservative in the WH, who’s handing out the talking points now?

One thing’s for sure: someone is.

Duncan Black, a tougher guy than I am, watches Larry Kudlow, and finds him echoing the Boehner line that taxpayer money is being used to “reward” Fannie and Freddie, which are owned by … the taxpayers.