"When you elect people who believe government is the problem, who believe government is bad, you get bad government."

Years ago, people I knew in DC used to say that the Dems ran things better. They just meant that the agencies ran better at lower levels under the Dems.

They did not really care about the politics of either party or those of the agency head. They just believed that something would get handled better in the way of paper and proceedings.

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So what makes you think that Bushies and people of that ilk don't like government? Watch them using the military to kill people abroad and various federal agencies here at home to suppress dissent. They are in love with government, just different parts of the government that you appreciate.

When all of the heads of this country either elected or appointed by the latter don't beleive in their jobs unless it's to destroy the govt. in wich they serve, then you know that your country is in deep
shit. Bushco is destroying the armed forces, the diplomatic corp, neglecting the basic needs of it's children and it's people, allowing the economy to take a tumble and allowing so many jobs to be outsourced and then the lamentable state of the national infrastructure, roads and bridges, water distribution etc.
I say that the US is slowly getting to the point where the soviets where before the collapse, lots of hot air, bragging that we are the best and what have you, but then you scrape the varnish and you see the tarnish.
America is loosing it and faster thanwe think; unless something is done and done quick the US of A will be not more worth the old Soviet Union.
So bushco managed in 2 mandates to destroy America, how long will your once proud country will tolerate that insult to the American experiment or was the Bush episode just part of the experimental protocol?

represents the Republican idea that in the realm of politics ONLY POWER is REAL. In this view of the world, the collapse of the bridge in Minnesota and the Flooding of NOLA represent nothing real except opportunities to be exploited for purposes of political gain. The people harmed or killed have no relevance. They so not exist except as objects to be exploited for the purposes of holding power. They have no physical or moral significance outside of this context. Once a ruling class has reached this level of cynicism, what they rule must crumble. In a figurative way they believe they can command pigs to fly. Let us hope that enough of us then can recognize what lands on our heads, on our empty plates, and on our Sunday clothing; and we choose to throw the bastards out for a long time.

I live in a small Republican conservatarian town in western Virginia that has recently discovered that it's whole water delivery system basically needs replacing and they don't have the money to do it.
In an era of sane national government under the Democrats, block grants would be available and this stuff would be occurring on an ongoing basis.

The Cheney/Bush Republicans are greedy and stupid and very short term thinkers. Cheney's purchase of the asbestos burdened Dresser Industries for Halliburton is a wonderful example of the stupidity and incompetence. They needed the Iraq war to get Halliburton out of the hole Cheney dug. Ah, crony capitalists. East Asia, ya ain't got nothing on the Pubs.

Of course, much of this stems from the good old US frontier ethic of screw it up, use it up and move on west.

Remember, it was US government policy to extinguish the Bison herds in the west to subjugate the Indians. They almost suceeded too. But hell, those Texas cattlemen always knew beef was better for you anyway. Grrrr. I feel a rant coming on.

I was just poking the whoopie-cushion, with predictable (but amusing) results.