…the fatal conceit to think that they can tinker it (the economy) back to “health” with policies that just happen to coincide with their political preferences to increase their power and control over it and the American people?
That’s a good diagnosis of what’s going on.
After the election and before taking office, this President said that our (economic) problems are such that the federal government is the only entity capable of fixing them.
Inside that version of reality, several personality traits are evident, Obama’s belief that he and his minions own it all, his liking to dwell on Himself as Fixer, and a kind of negativity about this country, freedom & free enterprise.
(Small thinking, measures of deepening control & limitation of others are very much the community organizer mentality.)
And when the policies crap out ? You’ve got Joe Biden saying “we guessed wrong” or Obama or Geithner saying “the problems (we inherited them, don’t blame us !)were deeper than we thought”.
Power over it through killing it, Munchausen’s works.
