The Country’s In The Best Of Hands

The good news is that, when it comes to reshaping the U.S. mortgage market [any market for that matter — ed.], the Obama administration’s top guns are bringing to bear all of the brisk, rough-’n’-ready entrepreneurial know-how they picked up in their previous careers as university professors, nonprofit activists, and holders of political sinecures.-- From Transterrestrial Musings

or, as one wag put it, they are like the social workers assigned to child welfare who are simply brimming with knowledge about the subject....., not because they have children themselves or have much personal experience in the matter, but because they read lots of books about it in college.