Lawyers, Apparatchiks, and Hacks

Michael Walsh who blogs at PJ Media, writes about our political class, while echoing an ironic line from Raiders of the Lost Ark about the government having "top men" working on a project.

The Progressive myth is that we ought to have a government of experts — top men! — to handle the nation’s problems in a calm, deliberative manner. The reality is that we have a nation of unscrupulous lawyers, amoral apparatchiks and political hacks whose only area of expertise is manipulating the electoral and governmental systems and getting rich by doing so. 

Those are real skills, just not the ones we need right now. I believe Walsh is characterizing Ron Klain, Obama's new Ebola czar, who appears to know less than at the average person about Ebola or epidemiology.