Let Them Eat Hope | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary

Let Them Eat Hope | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Contemplating the policy wreckage that surrounds him, the president has concluded that what this country needs is a fresh injection of presidential hope."

"On the campaign trail last time around, Obama pledged, among other things, to provide "a cure for cancer in our time," to deliver "a complete transformation of the economy," "end the age of oil in our time," and, perhaps most quixotically, to "fundamentally change the way Washington works." "