March 7, 2009

Who is the Smartest of Them All?

By Christopher Chantrill
You all remember the old German folk tale of  Snow White and the Seven Conservatives.  Every morning the liberal policy wonk gets up and looks at The New York Times online.Mirror, Mirror on the wall;Who is the smartest of them all?And The New York Times always responds in the same way.You, my wonk, are smartest of all.Sometimes our liberal friend can't get enough of these comfortable words and turns to the op-ed section.Mirror, mirror on the wall;Who is the dumbest of them all?And The New York Times columnists always respond:Bush is the dumbest of them all;Reagan is the amiable dunce of them all;Ford the stumble-bum of them all;Ike the syntax challenged of them all;Coolidge the weaniest pickle of them all.Those Republican presidents!  They sure can pick ‘em!One thing you can say about the Obama Budget Overview.  (By the way, you can see the headline charts at usgovernmentspending.com.)  It is smart.  The critical Table S-6 in the summary section is...(Read Full Article)