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Incompetent Government
Do the NYTimes editors read their own paper? If they do, you’d think they'd see foolishness of their arguments for more government. Today's front page wails that the President has fewer than half his top appointees “in place advancing his agenda."

Obama does not have his own people enacting programs central to his mission. He is trying to fix the financial markets but does not have an assistant treasury secretary for financial markets. He is spending more money on transportation than anyone since Dwight D. Eisenhower but does not have his own inspector general watching how the dollars are used. He is fighting two wars but does not have an Army secretary.

Does it occur to the editors that a government incapable of appointing people within 8 months should not try to "fix" financial markets?...