Who's That Gruber Goober, and What Does it Mean to You?

While I often admire Neil Cavuto for his honest and insightful analysis of important news stories, I think he misses the most important element of this story. Neil's initial assertion that "No one doubts this MIT professor's brilliance," may strengthen the emotional aspect of his argument, but it also helps to mask the professor's real problem--no one is more convinced of his intelligence than he is.
Not only is Professor Gruber completely convinced that people are incapableof making sound economic decisions on their own, he is totally dedicated to the utterly foolish notion that he is eminently qualified to make good economic decisions for them. He has spent entirely too much time admiring himself in the mirror of intellectual accolades that is all-to-often the most cherished piece of furniture in the mental apartments of those elitists intellectuals who inhabit the ivory halls of our most celebrated universities.
Gruber has simply convinced himself that he is so smart that he should be entitled to make the important decisions for all those stupid Americans out there. Unfortunately for Obama and his Progressive allies, Gruber is a bright and shining example of exactly who they are.

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When the Smartest Guy in the Room Proves He’s Also…the Dumbest

Ever heard the expression“high IQ, low EQ”?

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Remembering Nixon's Disgrace: Why Does It Matter?

The Constitutional crisis that ended President Nixon's presidency was a jarring experience for our country. But I fear we are in the midst of a much more serious Constitutional crisis, one that will rival that of the American Civil War. In a time when broken promises and unwelcome changes seem to be the best that we can hope for, one might ask, "how is the way we remember a disgraced president from our past relevant to the problems we face today?" For that question, the old George Santayana quote about failing to learn history and consequently repeating its mistakes is timelessly applicable.

Forty years after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace, how should we remember him? Fox News recently posed roughly this question in a recent headline. But I think their question is a little off point. Perhaps a better question would be "How will History memorialize Mr. Nixon?" I tend to think Nixon's legacy will forever be tied to legacy of Barack Obama. Generations from now students of history will be writing papers on how Barack Obama became the kind of president that Richard Nixon had aspired to be. There will be hard cold analysis of how the Congress that forced Nixon to resign compares and contrasts to the feckless Congress we have today. Scholars will trace the progressive erosion of Congressional dedication to 'doing the country's business' and produce in depth analyses of how America paid a terrible price when the members of Congress adopted Party Loyalty as their supreme political ideal!

Or maybe I am way off base with my predictions! Maybe those scholars will be writing about how Senate Republicans let the country down when they abandoned Nixon! Maybe they will applaud the solidarity the Senate Democrats of today are showing their embattled president. Nah! Not a chance!

How to Fix the IRS: Castration!

If there ever was a perfect reason to reach back into the past to address a modern problem, the current situation with the IRS certainly gives us that reason. The ancient practice of castrating public servants to ensure their loyalty now presents us with a modern analogy that may well be useful. Of course I am not talking about literal castration, even though it might be a popular fantasy when it comes to the IRS. I am speaking of using political castration to reign in this outlaw agency while restoring the balance of powers among the branches of government that our Founders so carefully sought to achieve.

I believe we need a Constitutional Amendment that would place the IRS, and any other Federal tax collection agencies, under the direct and sole supervision of the House of Representatives. This may sound a bit radical, but it would serve to forever secure the 'Power of the Purse' to Congress, just as the Founders intended. IRS employees like Lois Lerner would have no opportunity to abuse the taxpayers for political purposes without expecting an immediate, career ending, response from Congress. Since members of the House of Representatives face the voters every two years, they know that they would have to be very careful to address problems in the IRS. Finally, this Amendment would force the president to negotiate with Congress and stifle the current trend towards an imperial presidency.

Common Core: a Symptom of Washington's Disease

Common Core is on a lot of people's minds lately, and it seems that it hasn't inspired very many happy thoughts. Of all the eletist ideas we are now saddled with, it seems that this one has really sparked a firestorm of public disgust. But what I am going to attack here is the thinking behind Common Core, not the ill conceived program itself. You see, Common Core is a symptom of a disease that has afflicted government in general, and most dramatically, our federal government. The root cause of this disease is Progressivism's ideal which amounts to an idealized infatuation with top-down, elitist thinking. Our government has become so infested with "public servants" dedicated to the idea that the purpose of government is to guide the evolution of human society that it no longer represents the interests of the people. Indeed, we see in Common Core a prime example of the greatest danger our democratic republic has ever faced. That danger is a government so powerful that it has the ability to produce people of, by, and for the government regardless of what the general populace might want. It is time for a revolution in the way we think about governance. Lets return to the ideals that made our country great. Lets remove the elitist scoundrels at every level of government and make our government answerable to the people, not to the self-appointed social engineers who have hijacked it. This fall, please vote for the kind of change that will make the elitist social engineers' rue the day they came to Washington.