The commission created to investigate the structural causes of the financial collapse may be designed to fail — but even if a few well-intentioned commissioners and staff try to make a real go of it, they’ll have former Rep. Bill Thomas (R-CA), the commission’s co-chair and a legendary partisan knife-fighter, standing in their way.

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