House Majority Barbie says: Economics is hard!

The ones who run the media, for instance, seem to be sharp fellows

"I always see two Jewish communities in America," Armey told the audience of Harris supporters last week. "One of deep intellect and one of shallow, superficial intellect."

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Armey, who is stepping down this year, told reporters yesterday he was simply making a broader point about liberals' wrong-headedness. "If you were a southern Anglo Baptist liberal, I promise you I would say you were not well educated and probably not a very deep thinker, because that's what liberals are," he said. "Liberals are, in my estimation, just not bright people. They don't think deeply, they don't comprehend, they don't understand a partial derivative, they have a narrow educational base as opposed to the hard scientists."

Mr. Armey, you know, is an economist. Economics, he feels, is one of those intellectual hard sciences.

Possibly his use of "hard" has to do with his own difficulties in grasping his subject. Can't imagine what he means by science.

PLA has a wonderfully indignant post about this.

confused

from Lileks, unedited:

But while flitting around tonight, I ran across an excerpt of a post from the “Max Speaks” website:

The line from the Right, the better to detract from the impressive substance of his speech, is that Gore has flip-flopped. General Sullivan is reduced to yapping, liberal! liberal!

The word “liberal” appears nowhere in Sullivan’s remarks. Sullivan begins his remarks like this:

I wonder what Al Gore's champions in the 2000 race who belong to the Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic party must think now. Gore unveiled himself in the 2000 campaign as a left-liberal on domestic matters

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Without getting into the substance of the difference between the positions of Mr. Lileks and Mr. Sawicky, it is clear to me that at least one of us is missing something.

Oh, very nice

You know, even I (who faithful readers know am a downy moderate creature, a veritable dove of centrist nonpartisan peace) am getting awfully tired of reading "If Clinton had done [x party-in-power atrocity], can you imagine what..."

However.

If Clinton had given the contract to supply oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to an oil company owned by Norman Lear, do you suppose we'd eventually hear about it once or twice?

David Koch, a founder of the Cato and Reason foundations, as well as Citizens for a Sound Economy, is the fortunate fellow. Seeing the Forest has the details.