Janet Daley recently wrote an article in the UK Telegraph that presented her opinion on President Obama and Prime Minister Brown’s view that within the current economic crises lies an opportunity.  The article appears here.  My take on Janet’s argument is basically this: Minister Brown (the Al Gore of British politics, minus the US Supreme Court and elections) and President Obama are using the current economic malaise to institute a leftish power grab, which is fool hearted and is not addressing the crises at hand.

She claims that the economic crisis was enabled, “as much by the Left-liberal determination to spread prosperity through easy credit to the poor, as by the greed of bankers.”  This is an entirely political claim that speaks to no more than the margins of the origins. [Read more →]