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JOHN PODHORETZ ON the TSA furor: ?When populist issues bubble up and take government officials by s?

By Glenn Reynolds

JOHN PODHORETZ ON the TSA furor: “When populist issues bubble up and take government officials by surprise, it?s often a sign of how profoundly out of touch the politicians and the people who work for them are getting. It happens to every administration. Reagan had Bitburg in 1985; Bush the Elder had his note card reading, ‘Message: I Care’; Bill Clinton had midnight basketball; George W. Bush had Dubai Ports World. What happens when these things blow up is that the government is so busy talking to itself and concerning itself with its own internal deliberations on policy that it forgets how these things might look or be experienced outside the executive branch. They lose the benefit of the doubt. And once that is lost, it?s very hard to get back.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).