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OPINION

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We’ve already established that no one will go to jail over $40 billion turfing of the brokerage firm MF Global, one of history’s largest bankruptcies.

MF Global died by the hand of the former Jon Corzine, the former golden boy at Goldman Sachs, the former Senator, the former Governor, the former Obama guru with a master’s degree from the University of Chicago; the sage with the Sixties beard wrapped in a custom-made Burberry suit and tie.  

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Like a lot of stories these days, Chicago works its way in there like a burr buried deep in someone’s hair since the 1960s.   

If you are like me, you’re about as tired of my hometown of Chicago as the Detroit Lions are of Soldier Field. You are as tired of being ruled by aging hippies as you are of seeing the 17 daily reruns of the Big Chill, the Deer Hunter and Born on the Fourth of July on movie channels.  

Chicago’s become the punchline behind the joke on the Obama administration in the same way that Monica Lewinsky became the punchline for the joke on Bill Clinton’s administration.



Metaphorically, there’s a great big stain splotching up the frock Chicago’s wearing. And we don’t have to wait for the DNA test to show who the culprits are or what they are up to.

You can tell them by the Goldman and the Sachs, the Princetons, the Yales, the Harvards, the clubs, the honors, the appointments, the fundraisers, the central banks, the mob.      

So there is much more to it than the merely personal story of one or two men. 

The rise and fall of Jon Corzine is an important story, in the same way the Rod Blagojevich story is important because it frames the flaws in our country vividly.

That these two deeply imperfect men were pushed forward vigorously as leaders in state and industry, should give pause to anyone who hopes that America’s best days are not behind us.  One will end up in jail because he didn’t belong to either Goldman or Sachs, and one will skate because he went to the right school; he’ll likely do more than skate actually.

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Look for Corzine to end up like the Dick Morris of the left, making millions from the comfort of a TV studio, because a big fat TV contract is the ultimate reward for ultimate incompetence.

“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed,” wrote Jonathan Swift well prior to the age of 600 digital channels that needed embarassing content.

How we end the practice of rewarding and advancing incompetents like Corzine and Blagojevich at the top of the leadership food chain will go a long way toward explaining how America can become great again.

Let’s be clear about this: Somewhere along the line, this country stopped being a meritocracy and instead became a Confederacy of Dunces to use another Swiftian phrase: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him," wrote Swift.

Barack Obama could stand on stage today and shoot an unarmed girl in a wheel chair and Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews and the rest of media midgets would tell you how the girl had it coming.

That’s why a firm like MF Global can produce a $40 billion bankruptcy, conveniently misplacing billions in the process and no one goes to jail.

“Of course, we’re not yet being told who has $1.6 billion of customer funds still unaccounted for,” writes Francine McKenna, a Forbes.com contributor. “If the SIPA Trustee James Giddens tells you he may be able to make customers almost whole, it’s from other funds recovered via negotiations from other sources. Not one organization has been sued, nothing has been clawed back, no one has been held formally responsible.”

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That’s the type of dodge that politicians have been running for centuries.

What’s different in this century, as opposed to the last, is that the media today is an unnamed, unindicted co-conspirator in the crimes of government.          

We didn’t get into a debt problem in this country because we needed the money; we didn’t meltdown the housing market because homeownership is less important now than it was 30 years ago; we didn’t make a wreck of healthcare because healthcare delivery is very different today than it has ever been.

Instead, all we have done is let the dunces confederate against the genius of America.

We’re surrounded by those dunces, in the UN, in Congress, on Wall Street, in the White House, the state house, in think tanks, in associations, in non-profits, on TV and in the news rooms.

Where the public good is at stake, we are a nation of idiot savants, with a special emphasis on the word “idiot.”   

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We’ve heard nothing from some of these idiots- the ones who say they share my conservative views -since the election but that perhaps it’s time to raise taxes just a little bit, you know?

For the sake of compromise?

They know as well as I do that a tax increase will just be more fodder for foolish Obama spending; they know that the talk of balancing the budget and deficit reduction is a scam.

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These same people were just months ago arguing vehemently against any tax increase at all. It was going to be the ruination of the country. Yet, today, just a little tax increase is A-OK.

So the American people ask legitimate questions of the GOP: Which is it? Are little more taxes on the rich OK, or are they not?

And the GOP mumbles an excuse because it fumbled the ball.

They are idiots all.

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