The disingenuousness of the Left

I was watching This Week this morning and there was a good back and forth between George Will and Robert Reich. Will was pointing out that we need to give market forces time to work to get the economy back on track and Reich kept on going on about how "the market has failed". Will was clearly getting exasperated. I think one reason he was getting exasperated was that Reich was just spewing out a slogan. The economy goes up and it goes down. There have been booms and recessions since Colonial days. So does that mean that every time we've had a recession that "the market has failed"? No, it just means we're undergoing a correction. It is healthy for the economy in the long run. What is clearly not healthy for the economy is for the government to get too involved, but the people like Reich are using this ridiculous canard that "the market has failed" to do just that. At best it is disingenuous and at worst it is clearly dishonest.

I can understand how the uninformed masses might buy into a slogan like "the market has failed" to justify their voting for someone like Obama, but for someone who clearly knows better, like Reich, one can only wonder how they can sleep at night when they know that they are, again, being misleading at best and deceitful at worst.