but, these admin people love crisis –they’re all Cloward-Piven people (did you know that professors Cloward and Piven were standing behind –on the stage i mean –Bill Clinton as he signed ‘motor-voter’?). Gen’l Petraeus needs to expand his strategic vision into places few commanders have ever been before, at least since the Thirty Years War, when personal armies and duchies flipped on whim and better offer.

Note that the three week market rally collapsed badly today, on O’s public beheading of Prince Rick of Wagoner. The traders reacted not to the firing, but to the intended signal sent in doing it so publicly. The signal the traders hear is “whim is coming”. Cloward-Piven. Crisis, upset, inability to plan, demoralization –all seem intended. Esp when one considers that had AIG been allowed to mark to model, as it was for the previous 70 years before mid-2007, the recovery would’ve started months ago, from a higher base, with far less ruin.