Frum's ignorance of Alaska constitution is obvious

Sister Toldjah, in what would be a "teachable moment" if only David Frum would be willing to learn, puts the dunce cap on the Vichy Republican in her latest blog post.

Frum showed his ignorance by trying to equate Sarah Palin's action as governor to increase the amount Alaska citizens receive from the state’s Permanent Fund with her warning about the dangers of federal government largesse. The liberal Republican columnist obviously doesn't understand the difference between the state and federal forms of government. Sister Toljah takes him to task for not realizing that Alaska's constitution defines the states resources both renewable and non-renewable as public trusts to be developed for the benefit of its citizens. To rub it in, she uses an excellent argument made by Nate Silver, who is hardly what anyone would call a right-wing idealogue:

"But apparently to David Frum, the Governor should have ignored her own State Constitution – which he also would have criticized her for had she done. That is, had he taken the time to read it in the first place, which he obviously did not – but probably would have eventually, or something."

Or perhaps ignorance isn't really the problem with liberal GOP elites like Frum. As Ronald Reagan observed:

"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so."

Update 1: Silly Sully appears to buy into Frum's argument, again proving Reagan's point. But in Andrew's case, we're willing to bet real money that he knows even more that isn't so than David does. As wrong as Frum may be about a great many things, we've never seen him advance the Trig Troofer delusion. But perhaps that's next, as Frum continues to drift, without benefit of rudder, hard to port.

Update 2: Ben Cohen also buys into David Frum's flawed POV. So is Frum writing talking points for leftist Democrats now? Honest work must be hard to come by since he left National Review.

- JP