Maureen Dowd Wants Soviet-Style Show Trials with Capitalist Defendants in Shackles

George Reisman's Blog on Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture ^ | February 7, 2009 | George Reisman

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Our mixed economy rests on the effective discarding of the United States Constitution, which placed severe limits on government power and thus stood as a bulwark in defense of an economic system that was almost one of laissez-faire. The Constitutional protections were discarded by a process of pretending that the Constitution could somehow “grow” or “evolve,” which actually meant nothing other than choosing to ignore it.

...The present symbolism depicting the relationship between the government and the citizen is that the head of the government, the President of the United States, has at his disposal, with no objection from anyone, Air Force One, which is a Boeing 747 jet plane that costs hundreds of millions of dollars and, when configured for commercial operation, carries more than 450 passengers. At the same time, howls of anger and fury go up when one of the largest private corporations in the country dares to order a 12-seat jet plane for $50 million...

[GoodDay]

Economist George Reisman (Pepperdine University) blogs on the bailout, the commercial bankers, and the million-dollar redecorating of an executive's office.

[freeangel]

Sure she does—that is, everyone but raines, goerlick, dodd, and most of the obama cabinet.

[woofie]

Cap Maureen Dowd’s salary.. $30,000. is enough for what she does.

[jiggyboy]

Welcome to the club Maureen.

[GeronL]

of course she does. but then again, she is an idiot

[George Smiley]

Maureen Down in shackles.

Kinda kinky!

[txnativegop]

You are far too generous to Ms. Dowd

[ari-freedom]

the rule...you forgot the rule:

[VRWC For Truth]

Calling my first witnesses: Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Hey Mo, the legal discovery process is like fighting CTJ. You lose. ROFL

[VR-21]

I've heard that a persons eyes are the windows to their soul.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Two bits might be more like it.

[dr_who]

Heck, make it less than that. She’s like a broken record. She must be eternally going through menopause or something. It’s a wonder any paper still carries her columns.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

$30,000. is enough for what she does.

$30k

That's pretty steep for a low end prostitute.

[PzLdr]

At least Goebbels had a brain.

[GoodDay]

“She must be eternally going through menopause or something. It’s a wonder any paper still carries her columns.”

So we might say that Dowd both writes for a rag, and is on the rag.

(Sorry. That really was in bad taste.)

[GOP Poet]

Paleeze.

[PGalt]

BUMP for morning read. /

[VR-21]

"At least Goebbels had a brain."

And a nicer personality too I suspect.

[bigbob]

Not kinky enough...

Think “ball gag”

[americanophile]

How about a witch trial...with Maureen Dowd in shackles?