Earliier today, David wrote about Ezra Klein’s appearance on Jon Stewart’s show. Klein managed to blow Stewart’s mind by discussing the layers of red tape involved in trying to give away federal money.
On the one hand it’s great to see someone making this case. On the other hand it’s also sort of laughable to have Klein, the champion of Obamacare, making the case that government is terribly inefficient and to have Stewart react to this message as if it’s breaking news. I mean, really, Jon. Republicans have been making this case about government since at least Ronald Reagan.
There’s an insularity problem on the left and in the media. Things Republicans say every day get ignored until some Democrat says something like “I don’t like those hateful Barbarians, but they have a point about X.” I think that’s what is happening here. All Klein is doing is channeling…
