Dream

In a reverie column, David Brooks writes of the dream Obama presidency he would like to see.

Walking into the Obama White House of my dreams will be like walking into the Gates Foundation. The people there will be ostentatiously pragmatic and data-driven. They’ll hunt good ideas like venture capitalists. They’ll have no faith in all-powerful bureaucrats issuing edicts from the center. Instead, they’ll use that language of decentralized networks, bottom-up reform and scalable innovation.

I've liked Brooks more and more ever since his common-sense admission that Sarah Palin was a disaster for the Republican ticket. He is the kind of conservative that we need more of. May his tribe increase.