Will's "Tincture of Lawlessness" column piece

George Will has such a nice way of putting things: I really wish more columnists were as eloquent as he. If you've ever been over to townhall.com/columnists, you'd see a long row of faces. Kind of like Mortal Kombat. But most of them or dull or "obvious" and others are just plain stupid or boilerplate.

Anyhow, Will brings up the Obama's administration willingness to run roughshod over contracts is probably, when you get right down to it, not particularly legal. I imagine a guy like Will recognizes the fact one of the primary reasons Obama can get away with these sorts of kingly-mandates is because his predecessor also ran roughshod over the constitution, thereby setting up this precedence. Furthermore, one has to assume Will understands that the administrations approach to the economy is what's driving the recession at this point. Who wants to spend money now? Business-wise that is? No one and you have ask why. Many of them have the money but are so afraid of what the economy is going to do, that they choose not to spend it on growth-related activities because they don't know when business will suddenly fall off. Or rather, when the bottom will finally hit. That uncertainty comes from the administration. It's origin is there, in my opinion, because no one knows what else they are going to do. What other banks are going fail? What will the administration do for them? And once they "do" something for the banks, suddenly the US Govt. owns the bank for all intents and purposes. They decide salary, bonuses, and in the case of the non-banking entity Chrysler - their FREAKING ADVERTISING budget!!!

It's late and I need to go to bed and so I'll get to the meat of the issue. The left wants more control. They want to own the means of production and they're using the recession and peoples' fears to their advantage. Don't think so? OK, go back a year ago: the oil industry. They wanted to federalize it because the market was so clearly "broken." We had high gas prices: so their solution is to ... federalize it? Isn't that a bit extreme? We don't hear about that now because the crisis is gone and so their cassis belli against capitalism is gone. But don't worry - when the price goes back up, we'll hear them clamor again to own the means of production. It's incremental Marxism.

Man, if someone would like to show me where I'm wrong on this, I'd love to hear it.