Verb Tense

Here's David Brooks this morning: "Is this country going to slide into progressive corporatism, a merger of corporate and federal power that will inevitably stifle competition, empower corporate and federal bureaucrats and protect entrenched interests?"

Well, we wouldn't want a merger of corporate and federal power, no siree. We don't want any powerful corporate and federal bureaucrats. And you can take your entrenched interests somewhere else, mister. It's good that Brooks is warning us against "what could happen if we aren't careful"!

Seriously, do they have an op-ed page editor at the NYTimes? Seriously.