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You know, one way of stopping a car when the brakes fail is running it into a bridge abutment. By golly, it sure stops the car.

I have heard opinions on this from conservatives I respect who are old enough to remember the Depression. None of them like the idea of a government intervention, but I haven't heard one yet who thinks nothing should be done, or so far today, are happy about the vote failure.

We have spent two generations selecting economic knowledge out of our elected officials, kicking out the ones who try to tell us there's no free lunch, and re-electing the ones who promise free lunches forever. Or cheap houses to people who can't pay for them.

Now you have hundreds of people trying to repair a supercomputer by hitting it with a hammer, because nobody's left who knows how it works.

But at this point, hitting it is still better than pulling the plug.

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