Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:00:11 PM
Barbara Walters, who peaked years (and years) ago, recently made a statement showing exactly what is wrong with the liberal mind. After Anthony Weiner came clean about his juvenile antics, she said ". . . If Sarah Palin
can still ride around on her bus and be considered as a possible
president, this man can override this, stay in congress and just hope
there is another scandal that will take him."
Now, the conservative mind knows that there is no conceivable similarity between a private citizen taking a bus around the country, even if that private citizen is thinking about running for president, and a sitting member of congress taking to the airwaves to lie and lie and lie some more.
Nancy Pelosi has called for an ethics investigation. Why? Weiner has admitted that he lied. There is absolutely no question whatsoever that he looked the American people in the eye and lied. The only thing that needs to be investigated, apparently, is whether blatantly lying to We the People is considered a breach of ethics. Really? There's actually a question of whether or not this is wrong?
But, let's get back to the liberal mind. Austan Goolsbee is leaving his post as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He succeeded Christina Romer, who left the post on September 3, 2010. Both of them are returning to academia, from whence they came. Neither of them could solve America's economic problems because neither of them has any real world experience. (At nine months, Mr. Goolsbee is considered one of Obama's "longest-serving" policy advisers.)
Both are full of book knowledge and they probably have all kinds of charts and computer models and scholarly papers. But, neither of them seemed to be able to grasp that there's a huge difference between how things "should" work and how they really work. When the plans they hatched failed, they just quit and went back to the insulated world of academe, where things always work on paper.
Liberals are big on book learning but fail miserably at common sense. We are told that Obama is "intelligent" because he went to Columbia and Harvard. (George W. Bush went to Yale and Harvard but was called stupid. But I digress.) Yet the most brilliant man to ever occupy the planet is absolutely clueless about how to fix things. He has surrounded himself with people who have all kinds of book learning, but no real world experience. Despite the fact that this has been going on for over two years, Obama and his fellow liberals can't see that academics may not be the right choice, and that maybe, just maybe, a businessman (or two or three) might be able to help. (It should be noted that Obama picked another academic, Lawrence Summers, as his senior economics council and director of the National Economics Council.)
Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. If Obama picks yet another academic to replace Mr. Goolsbee, won't that be proof positive that he is insane?