Enjoy economics professor Dr Thomas Sowell somewhat scathing commentary and the cognitve disconnect between political rhetoric and economic reality.  Not exactly news but still nice to have credentialed expert validate a long held and increasingly obvious suspision.  

The nub: they pull stuff out of their asses routinely.

The nugget: "It is of course no secret that there is no free lunch. It is just an inconvenient distraction that gets left out of political rhetoric."

The whole thing:

Politicians in Wonderland‎