I’m afraid the reason Obama’s “response” to the crisis doesn’t track with the crisis is because he’s not responding to the crisis. Never intended to. He’s implementing his pre-existing agenda and simply using the crisis as cover for his odious policies.

Not that he wouldn’t have gone ahead with these plans anyway, crisis or no. He’s just being opportunistic, but if there had been no financial crisis he would have found other justifications. Consider that he’s willing to paint his Health Care Nationalization and Crapification plan as part of the solution to a banking and credit crisis.

In some sense, this crisis may be a blessing (though a dubious sort). It may provoke a backlash in time to derail The One (Termer’s) agenda. The crisis may be a blessing like getting into a car crash on the way to the airport when the flight you were supposed to be on crashes. Laying in your hospital bed with several broken bones and other serious injuries, you can watch news coverage of the crash and think how lucky you are.