Step 1:  Dig hole in sand.

Step 2:  Bend over and insert head.

As the fight over raising the debt ceiling rages on the rhetoric becomes more inflexible – and stupid!  Recently Congressional leadership on the Democratic side of the aisle proclaimed entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid have nothing to do with America’s debt problem.  Anyone buying that?  Might as well have another 8 shots of tequila because excessive alcohol consumption has nothing to do with drunkenness either.

Democrat, Republican, Communist, Socialist, Tea Party – whatever.  It doesn’t matter what ideology we subscribe to.  What matters is politicians simply don’t get it.

What do they get?  Regulation.  More regulation.  If that fails they try regulation.  It’s the cure for all of life’s evils.  Ayn Rand knew a little something about this and explained it brilliantly in Atlas Shrugged.  Stephen Moore’s 2009 Wall Street Journal op-ed brings it all home.