Hey, WSJ. Chill!

The goal of Sen. Obama and the modern, "progressive" Democratic Party is to move the U.S. in the direction of Western Europe, the so-called German model and its "social market economy." Under this notion, business is highly regulated, as it would be in the next Congress under Democratic House committee chairmen Markey, Frank and Waxman. Business is allowed to create "wealth" so long as its utility is not primarily to create new jobs or economic growth but to support a deep welfare system.

So sayeth a certain Daniel Henniger in the Wall Street Journal. The emphasis is mine.

Jeez. Aside from being a big fat lie, this is stupid. Just plain dumb.

Didn't this guy ever hear the old saw, "A rising tide lifts all boats"? Nah. Has he actually been listening to Obama on jobs and economic growth? Nah. Does he believe that making real things again (instead of merely deals) is some kind of subversive notion that should be stopped before Barack and EdBarneyHenry can wrest the free-enterprise system from his cold, dead hand?

Or is he simply like so many of his ilk, someone who thinks that real people have no value and that only rich people count for something in this world? I know he knows his Rand. But does he know his Bible? Like, I mean, that business about a camel and the eye of a needle.