Truth to tell, I'm not so worried about Obama: for all his supposed liberality, his main characteristic seems to be caution, and he's fond of well-measured plans. But I have faith that the congressional Democrats, given a chance to mess in the markets, will overdo it. Not that I want the Republicans in power at this point, either -- the fact that so many of them responded to this crisis with the usual empty mantra "lower taxes!", as if that had much of anything to do with the problem, shows how far they've diverged from reality. Indeed, I'm appalled at the refusal of so many of them to even admit that careless deregulation was complicit in this mess.
What I want is careful technocrats doing the minimal necessary tinkering. But even granting that Obama himself tends to that style, I don't think he's going to do much to rein in the likely tide of regulation...
