How's this for timing? The same day that Warren Buffett has an op-ed piece in the New York Times commending the government's "remarkably effective" actions responding to the financial crisis, President Obama announces he's giving Mr. Buffett the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Barry Ritholz has a parody of the Buffett article up. The parody isn't right about everything but grasps some of the silliness of the whole thing.