On Feb 9, the Sun Journal editorial page was a celebration of imbalance and hero worship.

Dave Chirayath listed all the wonderful things in the “stimulus” package, not one of which has the slightest guarantee of stimulating anything but the national debt. Democrats control both houses of Congress and can pass it any time, but they need “bipartisan” support so that when it fails, they can whine, “Republicans voted for it, too.”

Paul Macri was worried about talk radio criticizing the closing of the Guantanamo detention center, which if not done will shred the Constitution. This was thinly disguised propaganda for the Fairness Doctrine, designed to complete the destruction of the First Amendment. Evidently some shreds are OK, others are not.

Tom Bulger equated the new president, in office less than a month, with Lincoln and both Roosevelts, and branded as stupid anyone who so much as questions his obvious perfection.

Pragmatism, like bipartisanship, is just cover for future failure. Congress (remember who is in charge) as recently as last July told us that the country’s financial system was in great shape and needed no changes. If Barack Obama wants to re-establish confidence in marketplace regulation, he should demand the immediate resignation of Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Christopher Dodd – and then prosecute them for malfeasance.

That won’t happen. Instead, those same foxes will guard the same henhouse with another trillion of our children’s dollars. There is bipartisan, pragmatic stupidity that staggers the imagination.

Michael LeBlanc, East Wilton