Bush Had to Burn the Capitalism Village to Save it

Published December 16, 2008 5:00am ET



When President Bush said earlier this week that he had to throw out free market principles in order to save them, I was at first stunned, then absolutely aghast, and finally reduced to a slow burn. I’ve been thinking since about what I would write in this post, but there was so much that I knew it needed to be refined at least a little before being written.

Then I read this post by Reason’s Matt Welch. Matt says it better than I ever could and I encourage you to share it with everybody you know on the Right.