Why Oh Why Are We Ruled by These Liars? (Karl Zinsmeister Department)

Karl Zinsmeister: yet more quality personnel at the American Enterprise Institute:

The Horse's Mouth: WILL THE FUN EVER STOP WITH KARL ZINSMEISTER? Now it looks as if Karl Zinsmeister, President Bush's newly-appointed chief domestic policy adviser, may get sued for altering quotes he gave to the Syracuse New Times before reposting the story on the web. Between you and me, I spoke today with a former employee of the magazine he edited, The American Enterprise, and this person made it very clear that Zinsmeister is a tick-tick-tick-ticking time bomb waiting to explode. More on this later, I hope.

I can't understand why any economist--why anyone who wants to have a reputation--works at AEI.