Gene Zitver: Ben Cline doesn’t feel his brain power is at the Elon Musk level

Chatting with NewsMax, Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline talked about a recent meeting he and other Republican members of Congress had at Mar-a-Lago with the incoming Trump administration’s chief oligarch Elon Musk.

“It’s always exciting to be in a conversation with Elon Musk,” Cline said. “His brain works at levels that are far above any of mine or any of my colleagues. … The bureaucracy is huge. It’s going to take someone like Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to actually tackle all of the bureaucracy, that is going to push back.”

I think Cline is being too modest. Both his brain and Musk’s brain seem to operate at about the same level when it comes to sheer fantasy.

As I posted in November, Cline eagerly agreed with Musk that it was possible to cut $2 trillion in government spending — more than Congress’s entire discretionary budget.

The key to this impossible feat, Cline suggested, is to cut “bureaucracy.”

Since then, however, Musk has backtracked. He said half that amount would be “an epic outcome.”

I have no doubt that Cline’s nimble brain will come to the same conclusion.

Gene Zitver is the editor of ClineWatch.