Others being wrong doesn't mean you're right

Megan tackles government power-happy liberals.

And of course the last eight years of Bush have hardly consisted of policies preferred by Friedman or other laissez faire small government libertarians, particularly of the Austrian school.

What we've had is eight years of big-spending "conservatism" with irresponsible tax cuts, which in many ways seems worse than the left's planned government activism. This hardly means either form of interventionism is a net positive; just that a Clintonesque center-lefty version may be less harmful than Bush Republicanism.