re: #29 iossarian

The main failing of the contemporary GOP is that they don’t accept that government actually works.

The whole point of a system of oversight is that you investigate problems, suggest corrections and solutions, and provide a guiding hand, but fundamentally you accept that the people working for the organization in question are essentially trying to do the right thing.

If you don’t accept this, then you have to run things yourself. But that’s not how the US system of government is set up. So the GOP is actually trying to govern in a way that is fundamentally at odds with the way in which the system is meant to work.

Government should not exist at all. Where and when it does, it should operate flawlessly and more efficiently than the private sector ever has.

I recall Rush Limbauch talking about the budget surplus under Clinton, and saying that it was immoral for the government to be taking more money from us than it needed to operate…