Carolyn Maloney- Democratic Congressional Idiot

Yesterday, I had the unfortunate opportunity to listen to the idiotic rantings of New York Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney on CNBC.

While being interviewed with Senator Tom Corker of Tennessee, a torrent of stupidity poured forth from Maloney's mouth.

She, of course, castigated now-absent Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson for having attempted to adapt the original TARP to changing conditions, while lauding the still-missing plans of Paulson's replacement, Tim "Tax Cheat" Geithner.

Then Maloney went on to praise Wonderboy, in advance, for whatever bilge is going to flow from his mouth later tonight. Finally, the Representative made sure to utter the sacrosanct administration magic word "transparency," claiming it for all of the administration's dealings, despite the fact it had nothing to do with the abominable 'stimulus' bill recently written and passed by Maloney's House colleagues.

Being curious as to this guiding light's background, I found this bio page on the Democratic Representative from New York.

Here is the sum total of her experience before moving into 'public service,' if you will pardon the phrase,

"After graduating from Greensboro College, Maloney worked for several years as a teacher and an administrator for the New York City Board of Education. In 1977, she went to work for the New York State legislature and held senior staff positions in both the State Assembly and the State Senate. In 1982, Maloney ran for public office for the first time and defeated an incumbent to win a seat on the New York City Council."

Just about what I expected. A short-term school teacher- K-8, it would seem, maybe 9-12 - before launching into a thirty-two year career spending other people's money. Great.

No economics degree. Not medicine, physics, mathematics, or anything to suggest high intelligence. Instead, she's a graduate from an also-ran, religiously-affiliated southern college with no degree that her own website thought sufficiently impressive to mention.

Now, she's Vice-Chair of the Joint Economic Committee. God help us! This woman doesn't understand anything about economics.

In response to Corker's sensible comments about spending and borrowing far too much money, Maloney gushed about how we had to rush to print money and give it to recently-unemployed Americans. That, sure, we'd like to wait for private business to hire again, but, who has time for that? We have to save these people instantly. They can't do it for themselves!

So we'll just not bother with the real economics of market-driven pricing, supply and demand. No, we'll just have government print money to pay for whatever- like FDR did!

The sad thing is, I think Maloney actually believes this stuff. It's remarkable that Corker didn't vomit just from being in proximity to such raving idiocy.

She's so clueless as to not know the difference between Keynes and Hayek. But she knows who Frisco Nan is, and that doing her bidding will get this former teacher with no other significant accomplishments or knowledge more plum committee assignments in any Democratic-controlled House.