Marketplace: Oil market making Washington crazy

Marketplace: Oil market making Washington crazy
I'm on a roll I guess. This segment from Marketplace from today sums things up nicely. We need a little intelligence in our policy beyond oil, war, and the military. These are 1950s-60s policy goals, weapons, take your pick. The 1990s saw an emergence of intelligence in policy and new growth. Then the Bush backlash came and it's the 1950s again except everyone is even more conservative, to the point of cutting off their own arms (see: What's the matter with Kansas...). To make things short, 2008.