Why is a total dunderhead the Speaker of the House?

Because we’re dunderheads, too?

Okay, here’s what happens when a Boehner meets economist:

John Boehner says that unemployed Americans are pretty clearly malingerers, bums on welfare who have decided that they don’t feel like working:

“This idea that has been born, maybe out of the economy over the last couple years, that you know, I really don’t have to work. I don’t really want to do this. I think I’d rather just sit around. This is a very sick idea for our country,” he said.
“If you wanted something you worked for it,” Boehner said, adding, “Trust me, I did it all.”

I could point to the overwhelming economic evidence that nothing like this is happening — after all, if what we were seeing was a mass withdrawal of labor supply, we should be seeing wages for those still willing to work taking off. …PaulKrugman

And then Krugman posts a chart showing the sour, wobbly, low line representing hourly earnings.

But we live in the company of people who can’t stand facts. You know, the people who smell funny — and kind of sour, too.
Cross-posted from Prairie Weather