That's just the way he's hardwired

Two observations on what the MEC's presser revealed about his core natre, one from the WSJ and one from James Pethakoukis at the American Enterprise Institute blog.  Both basically make the same point: that his mind gravitates toward government, because of its centrality in his cosmology. 

I did like the point in the WSJ editorial about how the problem with state and local revenues is not a lack of federal help, but rather trying to keep up with public-employee pensions.