Where is Robespierre When We Truly Need Him?

The Tennis Court Oath, the famous painting by David, depicts the victory, specious as it may have been, of the common people over their King. In many ways this was reflected this week as Congress passed the massive expenditure program and then began to strike out against the perpetrators of the acts, the Bankers. The Dodd amendment which caps salaries, albeit well timed, will have unintended consequences far beyond the good Senators intents, whatever they may have been.

The key question is when do we expect the shy and ruthless lawyer from the sticks, Robespierre, to enter the scene and begin the mass beheadings. Will it be the Fairness Doctrine, will it be choice in medicine, will it be the explosion of taxation and the drying up of all investment capital, perhaps we just eliminate any person with an entrepreneurial tendency.