Wendy Arbeit

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conservatives didn’t prevail in the midterms, their supporters might need to seek what she called “Second Amendment remedies.”XIII She supported eliminating the IRS and auditing the Fed, which put her at odds with Palin, who didn’t know what the Fed did. She claimed that Dearborn, Michigan, was being ruled by Sharia law. Finally, she supported the privatization of Social Security, praising similar efforts by Chile’s Augusto Pinochet. “Sometimes dictators have good ideas,” she noted. Nevada’s voters, apparently less pro-Pinochet than Angle, reelected the Democratic incumbent, Senator Harry ...more
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
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