George Rebane
RR and its conservative commenters are constantly taken to task by the left for their disdain of the intellectual level of our elected officials. By their work product they are known. But that is not enough for our progressive brethren who dismiss that criticism of government to be an attribute of (far?) right wing ideology. Well dear reader, take it as it’s dished out and be proud of your keen insight. What we see is what we get, and we are the ones who see and correctly identify the dummies in action.
A recent survey conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and reported on Fox News (you didn’t expect the lamestream media did you?) included a sample of mostly college educated people a subset of which was composed of elected officials. Their ability to answer correctly fundamental questions about the Constitution, American governance, and its history was abysmal. Questions that stumped them – “… three branches of government?”, “Who can declare war?”, “… the Cuban missile crisis?”, “… the inalienable rights?”, … .
Drew Zahn of the World Net Daily writes –
Twenty percent of the officials, reports Richard Brake in AOL News, thought that the Electoral College was a school for “training those aspiring for higher political office.”
“The fact that our elected representatives know even less about America’s history and institutions than the typical citizen (who doesn’t know much either) is troubling indeed,” writes Brake, who is co-chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s National Civic Literacy Board, “but perhaps helps explain the lack of constitutional discipline often displayed by our political class at every level of our system.
“Given this dismal performance,” he continues, “it would seem that last week’s House reading of the Constitution shouldn’t be described ‘presumptuous and self-righteous’ [as a New York Times editorial dubbed it], but as a necessary national tutorial for all elected officials.”
These intellectually handicapped truly are morons and should have no business doing the people’s business – except for one important consideration. They were elected by their peers.
I post this confirmation so that it can be cited in these pages as we continue to discuss the fruits of their labors from Washington, Sacramento, and, perhaps, at venues even closer to home.
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