Blinded by Science (ists)

Apparently, Obama has thrown Austan Goolsbee, awesome economist formerly known as "Obama's top economic adviser to the wolves. Obama says, "Austen who?" Well, that hurts. I actually was considering Mr. Obama for a second there, on the sheer merits of Austen Goolsbee alone, which is I know stupid because since when do politicians do what economists say, right? Didn't Mr. Nixon have some damn good economists on his staff when he erected those brilliant price and wage controls? The median voter theorem says politicians listen to the freaking 50th percentile voter, who most definitely is nowhere as educated as the median economist, let alone Mr. Goolsbee. Politics as usual. You tell one Canadian newspaper that the Messianic presidential candidate who sounds like a freaking protectionist intent on halting all trade with Canada and Mexico, that he's just saying that stuff because of politics, and poof. You're gone.