The Obama administration is bold. It also is careless regarding constitutional values and is acquiring a tincture of lawlessness.Read the whole thing here.
The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity -- the political allocation of wealth and opportunity -- is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.
To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
A Tincture of Lawlessness
Excellent article by George Will on the deep corruption and disdain for law that characterizes Obama's economic programs. A couple of quotes: