NYT version of Will critique

from: http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/09/24/opinion/24wed1.html?s=2&pg=3

September 24th, 2008 10:48 am
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor." - Thomas Jefferson

Today in the Washington Post George Will observed "The essence of this crisis is lack of knowledge, including the inability to know who owes what to whom, and where risk resides." Of course this is the same pundit who once observed: "The future has a way of arriving unannounced." Well, the future is here. The American economy is in tatters. Congressional oversight, always a dream, is soon to be a nightmare. And the 'free market' is but a corrupt joke.

The brand of political and economic freedom prized so dearly by the likes of G. Will and W. Kristol has failed. Its potential sold short. Sold on the cheap. Sold on the backs of the American public.

George Will once opined: "Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses." Now with capitalist excess rotting the foundation of the once "shining house on a hill" its time he recanted.

The incestuous relationship long championed by the right wing mouth pieces turns out to have been built on nothing but a sick symbiotic relationship between the goals of power and greed. The perverse troika of amoral politician, complicit regulator, and abetting banker has borne America a bazturd child. One that threatens all the pillars of American Democracy.

I wonder if in Rome's waning days its recalcitrant pundits were trying to rationalize the irrational?

Empire, always fleeting, is never defeated from without - it is always from within. And in this case one need look no further than the Conservative mirror to see the culprit. Reaganomics, thy name is mud. The only trickle down you ever bring is abuse of power.

Wishing the likes of Kristol and Will no ill-will, I pray they fare better than Shakespeare's 'Cinna, the Poet' from "Julius Caesar", who you may recall "a mob, eager for blood" kills using the "excuse that they never liked his poems much anyway". Such is the fate of facile mouthpieces. Beware the mob Kristol and Will! Brooks, you be careful too.

— BeerBellyBuddah, Wpg., Canada