Kevin Drum doesn't like it, and neither does Fred Barnes.

Kevin Drum, who is actually older than most bloggers, says the difference is generational.

Kevin Drum speaks sense on the way people talk about the "cost" of the government's bailout efforts.

"It brings people together," said Kevin Drum, who began the cat spotlight last year on his own blog, Calpundit (www.calpundit.com).

As Kevin Drum put it Wednesday night, "If Geithner is right, then everything is fine and the banking system was never really in very big trouble.

"I had more fun reading The Argument than I've had reading any political book in ages," Kevin Drum wrote in the Washington Monthly.

Kevin Drum (born October 19, 1958) is a liberal American political blogger and columnist.

Kevin Drum interview at The Potomac Journal.

Kevin Drum, of the Washington Monthly, also reported on these events.

Update: Kevin Drum says much the same thing over at Washington Monthly: "The answer lies in the cocoon Bush lives in.