Another Ban on Short Selling?

I've read recently that Chris Cox of the SEC has met with other country's counterparts and have discussed the possibility of further limitations of short selling specifically to financial institutions. Before I go on a rant about why this amounts to economic fascism, I found an interesting article that presents a balanced view of short selliing. The article came about because last week the CEO of Citigroup Vikram Pandit blamed short sellers for the bank's problems. This type of excuse always tends to sound alarm bells and reminds me from Hamlet:

Queen:
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Here's the article.