Chamber of Commerce Is Looking For One Unprincipled Economist

Dolts:

The Chamber of Commerce recently blasted out a fundraising e-mail to its member groups asking for $50,000 to hire a "respected economist" to study the health-care bills. Seems sensible enough. Knowledge is power, and all that. But then, as Michael Shear reports, comes step two:

"The economist will then circulate a sign-on letter to hundreds of other economists saying that the bill will kill jobs and hurt the economy. We will then be able to use this open letter to produce advertisements, and as a powerful lobbying and grass-roots document."

Quite the job opportunity, eh? Of course after rubber-stamping the Chamber of Commerce's predetermined conclusion the economist would have to drop the word "respected" from his or her resume -- but on the bright side, they could add, "as seen on T.V..."