He's flying high in dazzling hubris. The American economy is not yet fixed. It may get worse. And it is in this parlous and critical context that Mr. Obama has launched history-making expenditures and a reordering of American governance.*
Daring? Daring - if you believe in it. Reckless – to the point of real danger if you do not.
This is the greatest trapeze act in the history of North American politics.
