reasserts itself. Murphy's law will screw you up as soon as possible. And that the markets will correct as soon as you stop screwing with them. Bad days lie ahead, because the Obama administration will not stop meddling. It cannot stop meddling because all its political capital depends on making promises. All the plausible promises have been made and failed, so Obama has embarked on the impossible dream. [...] different mindset to make them happen.  The current bill is a classic example of steady state, blue social model thinking: it is more interested in keeping the status quo going by pumping more money into it than [...] I would make the distinction between culturally loyal blue-mindedness and what Eric Vogelin called the 'rebelling elite' which is an elite that has as its basic agenda the destruction of established order in favor of an entirely new form of civilization. Although there are some remnants of the loyal type in the Democratic party, the majority is of the rebelling type. What is the significance of this distinction? While the rebelling elite (and Obama is in this group if ever anyone was) do defend entrenched interests, they have something much larger and grander in mind and they use the promise of that vision to justify the use of force. I point to all of the totalitarian regimes, past and present, as a model in this regard. With sufficient ruthlessness, an outmoded regime can keep itself in business for a very long time after