“Leach’s speeches demonstrate the cosmic gulf between Jim Leach’s opinion of his abilities and Jim Leach’s abilities.”

Via Powerline:

After illustrating the dense and inscrutable prose the passes for "smarts" in Jim Leach's opinion of himself, Scott Johnson mentions a revealing insight into Obama's choice for the Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities

The new issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly reports that Leach's office in Washington's refurbished Post Office building is filled with painted wooden cutouts of famous "iconoclasts," among them "Rep. Jeannette Rankin, the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. participation in both world wars [and] Henry Wallace, vice president under Franklin Roosevelt, who lost his place on the ticket to Harry Truman..."

Henry Wallace! I have long thought that Roosevelt's replacement of Wallace with Truman on the Democratic ticket in 1944 provided irrefutable proof that God looks out for the United States. Wallace was a fool who would have altered the course of history very much for the worse if he had succeeded Roosevelt to the presidency in 1945 instead of Truman. Among other evidence of Wallace's foolishness, one thinks of Wallace's 1948 campaign that led him into an alliance with the Communists who were the backbone of the Progressive Party.

Every day in every way the mind of the man we elected as President is revealed.