I Guess You Have to Think Outside the Box When You Don’t Have a Box to Begin With

It’s possible, of course, that Brian Deese is a genius, but I wouldn’t bet on it. This 31-year-old Yale Law student, with no special background in the economics of the auto industry or in manufacturing operations - no apparent private-sector experience at all, in fact - is now a major player in making decisions affecting Chrysler and GM (H/T: Hyscience).

Perhaps even more troubling than this Administration’s lurch toward socialism is its complete lack of seriousness, in domestic as well as foreign policy. You complain about the Bush budget, and then quadruple it; you rewrite the bankruptcy law as you go along, pouring billions of dollars into an uncompetitive sector, and then wind up with the same fundamental problems as you had before (plus some new ones as a result of environmental fanaticism); and in spite of the well-publicized disaster that is UK and Canadian health care, you proceed full-speed ahead toward embracing the same inefficient (and deadly) model – and it’s all being managed by ideologues armed with blueprints for a castle in the air. The one miracle that Barack Obama can truly be credited with performing is raising the dead corpse of socialism, and the great challenge for conservatives is to get the thing back in its grave with a wooden stake through its heart before it destroys our way of life.