Your weekend reading assignment is this superior piece by Fred Barnes at the Weekly Standard who compares Obama's risky policies with risky loans and investments made by a bank. The bank becomes overleveraged and when those loans and investments start to fail, the bank is forced into bankruptcy (or gets a bailout).Barnes takes Obama's decision to close Gitmo as an example of his risky policies and makes some salient points out how those policies can define a presidency: So Obama, like a banker who made a bad loan, is confronted with a problem of his own making. The president said Bush acted too hastily in setting up Guantánamo. But Obama's announcement, two days after his inauguration, of a deadline for closing Guantánamo was a rash decision made in even greater haste. Most presidents propose two or three risky policies in their first year--risky because there's a significant chance of failure to deliver what's promised. In 1981, President Reagan's policies of...(Read Full Post)