Andrew Sullivan on the financial crisis:
The truth is: we had this coming. We deserve it. And we deserve leaders who are able to tell us that.
Yeah, no. I’d like to see any leader in charge of a government try and tell the people that we deserve this and that we should just sit back and cop it. Good luck with that.
I’m no economist either, but I imagine if we had a total collapse of all the banks, businesses and people around the world who had done financially irresponsible things over the past couple of decades, then things would be beyond pretty bad. In fact, I imagine things would be so bad that any political leader who dared not try whatever it takes, wouldn’t have much of a future in front of him or her.
Sometimes Andrew lets a bit too much of his inner-Libertarian out of it’s cage.