WILL THE SHILL BECOMES A LEVINITE

George Will has leapt on board Mark Levin's meme machine and now accuses Pres. Obama of being a statist in his latest column.

Obama's State Capitalism
By George F. Will
Sunday, August 23, 2009

We are already testing whether President Obama and other statists who have given his administration and this Congress their ideological cast have a doctrine analogous to Brezhnev's. Having aggressively, even promiscuously, blurred the distinction between public and private sectors with improvised and largely unauthorized interventions in the economy, will they ever countenance a retreat of the state? Or do they have an aspiration that they dare not speak? Do they hope that state capitalism will be irreversible -- that wherever government has asserted the primacy of politics, the primacy will be permanent?