BIG GOVERNMENT REDUX

So the president spells out his post-Katrina policy: borrowing $200 billion to “clear away the legacy of inequality.” He gives no accounting of how the money will be found. His governing philosophy is: “It’s going to cost whatever it’s going to cost.” So we have the federal government engaging in a massive program of social engineering to reverse racial inequality in one state. But if we can do it in one state, why not all of them? Did we elect Ted Kennedy? I have just one simple question: When do we hold a formal wake for the end of conservatism?