John Hood joins a distinguished bunch (including the author of a new presidential ratings book) in a new symposium at National Review Online analyzing the process President-elect Obama is using to full his cabinet.

From John’s contribution:

I?ve noticed that many conservative commentators are now deriding
Obama?s commitment to ?change? by citing the number of former Clinton
advisers he seems to be tapping or heeding. The joke is lame and the
sentiment misplaced. Faced with a choice between Clintonism and the
hard Left, there?s really no question what path Obama should be urged
to take. Clintonism at least means a respect for sound money, a
reticence to enact radical expansions of government power in massive
doses, and a hesitancy to pick trade wars with Europe, Asia, and Latin
America in the midst of a global economic meltdown. The hard Left wants
to turn back the clock to the prevailing economic pieties of the 1930s.
Yes, they are that deluded.