maybe the growing unpopularity of central planning will dissuade the enthusiasts from inflicting their experiments on the rest of us in the first place. Editor's Note : We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of Reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment for any reason at any time. Yup, Mr. Welch has nailed it. And all this certainly puts the mainstream media and the lefty pundits in an awkward position: at what point does it all become too obvious, even for them? When will blaming all problems on Bush and Republicans no longer seem convincing? I said at the time of the election that Obama would either govern as a Clintonite centrist or destroy the Democratic Party. The nitwits who thought it was 1932 again amazed me. In 1932, the federal government was the size of PBS. Big government, for all of its faults, had honestly never been tried in this country. In 2008 it had been tried for 43 years. The liberals had and have no new ideas. They just have the same crap that didn't work in the 1960s and 1970s. It didn't work then and it isn't working now. It is funny that Obama billed himself as "change" and something new when in reality his ideology and ideals are about as cutting edge