I seldom find the WSJ's Daniel Henninger very interesting. His analyses are often correct, but too often boring. Thursday however, he grabbed me with just the right metaphor for Obama's progressive/collectivist programs: Obama is the Wizard of Oz!
Only the simplest -- Henninger might say the most credulous -- among us believe in the competence of our government. A good friend describes private industry as "the world that works" and the government as "the world that doesn't." Though my friend has labored his entire career in the latter world striving to make it work in spite of itself and though he has fought with such persistence that he quite often succeeds, his description of its flaws never varies.
Obama should take lessons from him.
