Boston.com / Business / Mankiw quits economic post

Couldn't take the lying anymore, huh? It's hard for me to reconcile what people believe and how they subdue their core beliefs for the chance to see power up-close. He even knew that he had no chance of entering any sort of academic conversation with the West Wing (any sort of intellectual debate had been won long ago by the Norquist crowd). Yet at the same time, he did go to DC to be ignored. It won't hurt him down the road, but maybe in the next Administration a Fed seat? Is that where his ambition takes him?