Ignorant gasbrained lawyers who have little or no knowledge of business are again indulging in their favorite pasttime: throwing sixty-pound rust-covered monkey wrenches into the American economic system and then bitching about how capitalism doesn't work.

The latest Brilliant Idea from the asinine Fritz Hollings. Check it out.

This is only one of thousands of such examples. Senators and Congressmen who know nothing about economics are making economic policy. Senators and Congressmen who probably don't know how many protons a hydrogen atom has are making science policy.

The classic example was when Clinton's Secretary of Labor Robert Reich proposed indexing the minimum wage to inflation.

At what point do we decide that it is counterproductive to hand idiots more power?