And by hilarity I mean she failed miserably.

Brewer: “You’re simplifying the issues that were on the plate of the nation at that point. I mean we were looking at going — averting a Depression at that point, everyone the Fed chairman. . .

Brooks: “Well I disagree that we were going into a Depression, but go ahead.”

Brewer: “Do you have a degree in economics?”

Brooks: “Yes Ma’am I do, highest honors.”

Via Mediaite:

Brooks’ biography backs up his educational claim, in that he “graduated from Duke University in three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics.” Brooks also scored some political points defending the House Republicans budget plan as something concrete, unlike the “speeches and talk in generalities, which is what the President and the White House staff, along with the Senate, are doing.”