[chockchocschoir]

I'd expect politicians who don't understand something to bring experts that does understand that thing, not to ignore everything they don't understand.

[mschuster91]

Bringing in actual experts would be at odds with the informal duty of a politician to appease to the donors. That's why you see such obscene amounts of absurdity out of modern politics - they don't ask actual experts for advice, they ask their top donors.

[gpderetta]

That's mildly inconvenient when you want to make a phone call.