It's embarrassing: They can't see how arrogant they are

 

Susan Estrich never really interests me, but this title - Ready, Fire, Aim - piqued my curiosity.

House Minority Leader John Boehner has a brilliant idea.

Nearly one in 10 Americans is out of work. The housing market stinks. The stock market is barely holding on. Republicans, much as I hate to say it, have a real opportunity in this midterm election.
 
And what is the brilliant plan from the man leading the charge in the House of Representatives?

Fire Larry Summers.

If you are a normal American, you might ask, "Who?" My guess is, if I were to stand on a street corner anywhere in America other than Harvard Square (where he used to be the local president), not a soul would recognize the man who served as Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton and now serves as a senior economic adviser to President Obama.

 

I consider myself a "normal American," and I know a great deal about Larry Summers.  And not only Larry Summers, but also the economy he's supposedly steering, the way our government works (and the way it was designed to work), who's doing what where, and what is important to "normal Americans." 

Susan Estrich should come and stand on my street corner.  She could learn alot about the new normal in America.  In the meantime, I'm actually embarrassed for her that she's so oblivious to her isolation within the Political Class (Rasmussen) or Ruling Class (Codevilla), that she has no idea how arrogant she sounds.... "anywhere in America."

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Susan Estrich is proof, if any is needed, that something is terribly wrong with American education. She's a graduate of both Wellesley and Harvard Law School, where she was the first woman to edit the Harvard Law Review. Where I come from, those are highfalutin credentials, yet her writing is so sloppy no self-respecting English teacher would tolerate it. The problem's with that word "normal." When applied to people, that's a clinical term, and best saved for discussions of cognitive functioning. "Ordinary" or "average" or "typical" might have been somewhat better, but each of those words also presents problems. Her best bet would have been to write "most Americans." But in doing that she'd have libelled more than half the people of this country. There's no way out of this pickle -- except to say nothing at all about "most" Americans without having valid survey data ready at hand. Someone at Wellesley or Harvard should have taught her that sweeping generalizations are always dangerous, and best avoided by careful writers. I guess the teachers at those schools are so busy teaching the ideology of progressivism that they don't have time for such trivia as sweeping generalizations. Too bad.