✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
The tenfold figure is the tell: no study, no model, no arithmetic, just a number chosen because it sounds like a good deal at a car lot. An industry can be a complete and total disaster and also a national treasure worth subsidizing, apparently in the same paragraph, provided the diagnosis is delivered by an actor holding a ceremonial title. And the instruction that Congress craft this quickly, accurately and efficiently is the sort of thing one says when one has never met Congress. Note also the tenderness suddenly available to blue states once a camera crew is involved.