Leading Off, Ctd: James Glassman To Run Bush Policy Institute

This is great news for Dallas. Jim Glassman is the kind of public intellectual who will contribute not only to the Bush program but to the city. Jim happens to be a former magazine guy (New Republic, Atlantic), which makes him an A#1 kind of guy. He’s also author of a book (Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market) that was as spectacularly wrong as most of the major politicies of the Bush White House (Medicare drugs, deficit spending, Iraq, torture).  But who among us has not made that kind of miscall? During the 1992 primaries, I argued the Democrats ought to drop Bill Clinton, who was in the midst of the Gennifer Flowers scandal, and adopt Ross Perot. So, Jim, if you don’t bring up mine, I won’t bring up yours. Welcome to Dallas.