This is Gavin Newsom's problem

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“I mean, oh, God,” he said, sipping green tea in his elegant office. “In a couple of years, you’ll see me as the clerk of a wine store.”

He thinks that being a bigwig politician makes you better than a wine store clerk. Is the era of liberal elitism coming to a close? I hope so. There's an entire generation of these people, liberals and GOP alike, who've made a career off of big government. They should all go back to doing something useful like store clerking. I wonder what the U.S. is going to look like when the government stops stealing money from the People and spewing it on people like Gavin Newsom.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/op...20dowd.html?hp

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“I mean, oh, God,” he said, sipping green tea in his elegant office. “In a couple of years, you’ll see me as the clerk of a wine store.”

He thinks that being a bigwig politician makes you better than a wine store clerk. Is the era of liberal elitism coming to a close? I hope so. There's an entire generation of these people, liberals and GOP alike, who've made a career off of big government. They should all go back to doing something useful like store clerking. I wonder what the U.S. is going to look like when the government stops stealing money from the People and spewing it on people like Gavin Newsom.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/op...20dowd.html?hp

Great find. Really shows the mindset, doesn't it?