Mona exposes herself

In reading Mona Charen's response to Jesse Barton, she let's us see for ourselves that she's no different than her leftie counterparts:

I’m all for reforming the tax system, but at least in the debates, Paul has not said what would replace the IRS. A sales tax? A VAT? He seems to like to leave the impression that he’d eliminate taxes altogether.

I have always favored smaller government – far smaller. But I don’t think you have to be a fanatic about it and in fact, overly ambitious or incautious approaches are doomed to failure in American politics.

I have to wonder if Mona realizes that her response is only a trivially modified form of Al Gore's "risky scheme" rhetoric. I doubt it. After all, remember what Mark Twain said about journalists:

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.