Why the ObamaCare Ruling Stinks

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92. I agree. The real test would come with a second term....

I'm not holding my breath, though.

I'm currently reading "Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America" by Charles Ferguson, who won an Academy Award for his film, "Inside Job".

Most everyone here applauded that pick, so Mr. Ferguson has some bona fides, in that respect.

On pages 300-308 in a section titled, "Mr. Obama's Wall Street Government", Freguson lists, by name and history one after another of Pres. Obama's appointments, virtually all of them with ties to the financial sector and/or Wall Street. Ferguson says:

The first troubling sign was his personnel appointments. Not a single critic or voice of reform got a job--Not Simon Johnson, Nouriel roubini, Paul Krugman, Sheila Bair, Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, Robert Gnaizda, Brooksly Born, Senator Carl Levin, none of them.

Later, Ferguson says:

That the control of the oligarchy became even greater during the Bush administration goes without saying.

But what is perhaps most revealing is that Obama continued in Bush's footsteps, even though he had an unprecedented opportunity to change course. How to explain this?

Indeed, how does one explain this?