What Do Economists Know Anyway?

A gem from Clinton’s interview this last weekend:

George Stephanopoulos began his televised interview with Senator Hillary Clinton by asking if she could name a single economist who supports her plan for a gas tax suspension.

She did not. "I’m not going to put in my lot with economists," she said on ABC’s "This Week" program. A few moments later, she added, "Elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantages the vast majority of Americans."

Does the dismissal of expert opinion remind you of anyone?

(Hat tip: Ogged).

Evangelicals Against Christianism

This is most encouraging, especially as it comes from socially conservative types:

The statement, called "An Evangelical Manifesto," condemns Christians on the right and left for using faith to express political views without regard to the truth of the Bible, according to a draft of the document obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

"That way faith loses its independence, Christians become ‘useful idiots’ for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology," according to the draft.

What Rove Hath Wrought

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The durable minority status for the GOP will be his legacy. The partisan i.d. gap is now at its biggest in history. And this result Saturday night – when a Republican seat for thirty years was lost in Louisiana – may be a harbinger of the coming collapse.

One question: why does anyone still take one of the worst political strategists seriously?

He is responsible for a historic trashing of his own party. He has managed the least popular president in polling history; he has presided over the loss of both houses of Congress for his party; he has turned an entire generation off the conservative brand and message … and yet he is still a "genius." Is the MSM unable to relinquish a narrative when it is utterly disproved by reality? I thought that was the Republican leadership’s specialty.