How F**k(ng Stupid Do You have to be to Write for the New York Times?

John J. Miller, National Review, comes upon a piece of vapidity from the New York Times,  a moron, writing under the nom de plume, Eduardo Porter, wrote:

The framers of the Constitution evidently believed that happiness could be achieved, putting its pursuit up there alongside the unalienable rights to life and liberty. Though governments since then have seen life and liberty as deserving of vigorous protection, for all the public policies aimed at increasing economic growth, people have been left to sort out their happiness.

Ok moron, from the top, the reference to happiness is not found in the Constitution of the United States, but rather in the Declaration of Independence:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —

Two the authors of the Declaration said nothing at all about how happiness could be achieved,  if it  could be achieved or who should achieve it.      The authors only avered that it was the divine right of Man to pursue it

Then if a Pinch Sulzberger reader believes that the Constitution calls for state achievement of happiness, he is stupid enough to believe Porter’s premiss that happiness can be achieved if only taxes are made sufficently high.

Aside to Bit, I know we looking for another writer.   However Porter need not bother to apply.

Edit:  (David)

Addendum:  Bryan, Hot Air, has the video up.