The latest Business Week includes this passage in a Jane Sasseen article about the Obama administration?s priorities:
[I]n their quest to overhaul U.S. domestic policy, the White House is starting to unnerve many in the business community. The fear: In their haste to fulfill campaign promises and claim political victory, the Administration and their allies on Capitol Hill are throwing together complex bills in a haphazard way that could lead to costly unintended consequences for the economy.
Ignore for a moment the improper use of possessive pronouns in that passage. What?s more striking is the failure to recognize that ?costly unintended consequences? are guaranteed to follow the administration?s actions, no matter how ?haphazard? the process used to finalize the details.
From the stimulus package, to bailouts, to health-care reform, to cap and trade, even the most well-crafted legislation is bound to be bad.