Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek lampoons the critics of China's exchange rate policy by pointing out how US policy makers are saying different things at the same time:
First breath (spoken with hat in hand): “Please lend us plenty of money. It’ll help us to ‘stimulate’ our economy so that it’ll grow.”
Second breath (spoken on the record at a ‘summit’ of ‘leaders’): “How dare you lend us so much money! You are keeping our economy from growing!”
Third breath (spoken loudly and self-righteously on the campaign trail): “Elect me and I will protect us innocent Americans from the scheming, greedy, and devilish Chinese!”