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WILL COLLIER has a bone to pick with David Brooks. ?What Brooks, with his touching faith in ?pragma?

By Glenn Reynolds

WILL COLLIER has a bone to pick with David Brooks. “What Brooks, with his touching faith in ‘pragmatic federal leaders with professional expertise’ doesn’t want to talk about, of course, is just how badly the Ivy League class has failed over the past couple of decades. All those rows of degrees from Harvard didn’t keep a pack of Brooksian elites–mostly members of the Democratic Party–from running Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac straight into the toilet, and taking the private economy with them. Hiring out of the Ivies also didn’t save Lehman Brothers or AIG from doing remarkably stupid things with other people’s money. And as for ‘professional expertise?’ just what profession does the Obama cabinet posses expertise in, other than hardball politics?” And George W. Bush had went to Yale and had a graduate degree from Harvard — though, somehow, that didn’t seem to qualify him for membership in the educated classes.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).