It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject – whether from the Left or the Right a poet or a plumber – to the Beltway version in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition it seems will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
