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Thomas Sowell

Besides the breach in protocol, he has a point, I'm afraid. As the admirable Thomas Sowell, senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, has observed with acumen rarely heard today, the president is not stupid; he’s a politician:

What was the rush to pass it, then? It was not to get that money out into the economy as fast as possible. It was to get that money-- and the power that goes with it-- into the hands of the government. Power is what politics is all about.

And that is why the distinguished representative from the great state of South Carolina isn't too far off base in his fifteen hundredths of a second of notoriety. Looks like a prophet had his moment. And we know the fate of prophets.