Smoot's a Hoot
Posted By Don Boudreaux On July 15, 2007 @ 7:32 pm In Politics,Trade | Comments Disabled
My friend Randy Simmons (co-author of the outstanding public-choice primer, Beyond Politics [1]) draws my attention to this poem by Ogden Nash [2]. (After you click on the link, scroll down a bit until you find the second poem.) It is Nash’s tribute to Sen. Smoot, of Smoot-Hawley fame.
Persons like Sen. Smoot — and Sen. Schumer — and Sen. Clinton — and Sens. Graham and Brown and Kennedy and Vitter and Boxer and Lott and McCain and you-name-the-office-holder — deserve such withering ridicule. Such scorn is among the best ways to expose these arrogant busybodies for what they are.
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[1] Beyond Politics: http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Politics-Bureaucracy-Independent-Political/dp/0813322073/ref=sr_1_4/103-6179968-2426214?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184542244&sr=1-4
[2] this poem by Ogden Nash: http://www.charleswelty.com/authors/nash.htm
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