“The Administration’s best hope is to pass ownership of the problems to the Republicans after 2010.”

I have been waiting, with increasing impatience, for someone to point out that the Current Mess is due to 75 years of Republicans being Mr. Nice Guy and either going along with Democratic New Deal Great Society National Malaise Fundamental Transformation programs put forth by the Democrats or sputtering incoherently when they do oppose them.

Today I heard a couple of remarkable observations. Dr. Thomas Sowell pointed out that during the Great Depression that unemployment really did not take off until FDR’s New Deal took effect – no wonder they called the worst part of the Depression the “Roosevelt Depression.” Dr. Sowell also explained that the reason that “WWII ended the Depression” was that when the war started they got rid of FDR’s ideologues that were hurting industry and replaced them with people who actually knew what they were doing.