The president is sounding the right notes. His op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal (its placement is certainly no accident) is a refreshing olive branch to a community he seems to have taken special pains to alienate. It's further evidence he's heeded the election results and (for the time being) continues his march to the middle.
"For two centuries, America's free market has not only been the source of dazzling ideas and path-breaking products, it has also been the greatest force for prosperity the world has ever known," he begins.
He's signed an executive order calling for a review of regulation at the federal level, and to eliminate those regulations deemed "stifling to economic growth." The examples he cites are both heartening (the federal overreach in fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks) and feckless (the EPA's treatment of saccharine as a dangerous chemical).
