"Of course we don't want failed policies to Succeed."
Mitt Romney, speaking eight days into the Obama administration, said that Mitch McConnell was half right in saying he hoped Obama would fail in that "of course we don't want failed policies to succeed."
Let's examine that. Say that, for instance, you are devoted to the current Republican theory of macro-economics. The Fed increases the money supply in 2009 and, given your theoretical understanding of macro and current economic conditions, you believe that this will create inflation. If it does not create inflation then your theory is wrong.
So you go on TV and some stooge asks you what will happen, now that the Fed has increased the money supply. And you say, "Well of course I hope inflation will go up."
Because if it doesn't go up then a "failed policy" would have succeeded. And the evidence-free economic ideology is a good unto itself... a thing to be promoted because it is good, not because it is true.
So since it will always be "right" it is better all-around if the real world happens to fall in line with the theory.
But if the opposing "lame-stream" theory happens to be correct in the real world that would be tragic because it would mean a "failed policy" was successful and efficacious.
This reminds me of something... the people who hope that condom use will not lessen the spread of STDs. Or the people hoping that Saddam Hussein had WMD to gas our troops with. The people who hope it will be proven that there is nothing we can do about climate change.
And, of course, the millions of Americans who root hard everyday for nuclear war, race war, global plague or invasion by hostile aliens because otherwise their neighbor's "failed policy" of spending money on education instead of canned food and ammunition would have succeeded.
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