Technocrat and Company ( Part II )

In response to my criticism of Romney, a long-time friend wrote

Glad to see your last sentence:

"Unless, of course, the only choice is a progressivist Democrat."

I am with Dennis Miller for Herman Cain. How about a Cain - Romney ticket?

Always remember the Reagan Rule: Republicans should nominate the most conservative person who can win!

Within those limits, I do think that we can do better than Romney.

Mitt Romney, Technocrat

Here's how you run health care if you're Mitt Romney.  You know there just has to be a system. You also know you aren't smart enough to manage it yourself.  So you call together experts from all the stakeholders -- a word that always makes me think of vampire hunters -- you lock them in a room, and you get behind whatever plan comes out of the room.

Obama Woke the Bear!

Now and then a columnist says something I've been telling Sherry.  Then I get to say "See!" especially if it's someone with whom she agrees.

I'm so seldom right that I really can't... er... bear not pointing it out when I am.

I've been saying that Obama and his leftist coterie, better known as the Obamarama, have really angered the independents of the electorate.

A New Day in Politics

It's a new day in politics.  Issues are now everywhere, impossible to ignore, as everyone is constantly immersed in the water of political life.

Ethnography is no longer electoral destiny.  Jews used to be liberals first and Jews second.  NY-09 is set to prove that they are intelligent pragmatic people who follow the issues of the day, and, though they are centered on the left, they are not politically immovable.

Central Planning's Calculation Problem

Now that Keynesianism is receiving last rites, we can hope that the next progressivist idea to fade from the scene will be... wait for it... central planning itself!

Robert Tracinski flogs that old canard unmercifully in this paean to free market ingenuity, pointing out that again and again government planners have had even worse luck than the futurists who regularly fail to predict next year's next big idea much less the hundreds of new ideas of the next decade.

Why is that?