RANDY BARNETT HAS ARRIVED: The New York Times editorialized against his “Repeal Amendment” today. That should give it a nice boost in the polls. . . .

And only the New York Times editors could call a time when federal power was limited a “mythic past.” Is limited federal power one of those long-dormant ideas from dusty bookshelves? But, really, the NYT editors seem disappointed that this economic crisis is going to waste:

In past economic crises, populist fervor has been for expanding the power of the national government to address America’s pressing needs. Pleas for making good the nation’s commitment to equality and welfare have been as loud as those for liberty. Now the many who are struggling have no progressive champion. The left have ceded the field to the Tea Party and, in doing so, allowed it to make history. It is building political power by selling the promise of a return to a mythic past.

Ignorant rubes! Don’t they know that the answer to this crisis is more of the same?