• POLICY THERE?

Of course the "pleasure principle" makes possible there are politicians because that politicians have all pleasures and free, is very common. A "vocational" issue.

Maybe has started a "category" in politics, something like "before to ask forgiveness". That is what happens now with all the indignity, when they confess to be wrong by default in the estimates to the crisis. In politics there is no recognition of errors because an acquittal does not exist. It is not a religion. Politicians spend many millions want to know; any power structure is ultimately informative. That receives in the official business the name of "control".
Politics is the maximum level of consciousness in this world (1). So, institutions are not "wrong" but always incur liability. The essence (and justification) of power, is none other than this. When allowed to have a mistake, which is impossible, it will continue to provoke and "building" the crisis for us. No more.

There is crisis, then what the president is doing in Russia?
There is crisis, then what is the Russian president doing to receive Obama while his country looks like a car without wheels? (Russia has improved anyway.)

(1) Still this represents 55 million dead in WWII. (Shall we angry about a simple thing as the current crisis?. He, he...)