EMINENCE FRONT — IT’S A PUT ON:  Really successful people who were caught lying on their CVs.

Curiously, one of the worst liars about his salad days (certainly at least, during his salad days) and his would-be successor aren’t even mentioned.

As Glenn likes to say, we have the worst political class in our history — but the rot extends far beyond the world of politics.

Perhaps that explains why elites hold the middle class in such contempt; as Ace of Spades noted in 2011, “Our elites are fixated on how disappointed they are with the tawdry public precisely because that allows them to avoid examining their own colossal failures.”