Wow. This defines what is wrong in Washington. This also explains why when new, idealistic representatives go to washington it often doesn't take that long for them to be demoralized. Fighting against this type of intelligence is like tilting at windmills or bouncing a ball off of a curtain or some similarly futile endeavor...

Fantastic. Great article.
"WE'RE SMART AND WE'RE RIGHT. WE'RE RIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE SMART. WE'RE SMART BECAUSE WE'RE RIGHT." ... sounds like a hate week gathering from 1984....

Excellent article ksievers. I met a young professional last week. When asked about his line of work his response was community organizer helping NGOs with their sustainability projects through education development in organic
agriculture. It took us 10 minutes to get down to the fact he was basically pushing agenda and getting a govt check for it. The agenda of
course was to preserve the small farmer by getting govt to pass more agricultural subsidy laws favoring "
organic "