Government becomes the Problem

Of all the amusing things about the loony-bin slugfest that's shaping up among wingers over the nomination of Harriet Miers, the funniest has to be that she represents some kind of betrayal of conservative principles.

Au contraire, my fine feathered friends, this nomination is the culmination of 25 years of cynicism and brazen contempt for the very idea of government.

It started with Ronald Reagan being showered with praise for his political shrewdness in staffing government agencies with ideologues whose only qualification was unremitting hostility to the mission of the agency they were supposed to manage. It continued as GOP shills praised out-of-control Republican spending as the way to strait-jacket the government with debt, thereby keeping it from getting any bigger. And this is how it ends up: with the nomination of an unqualified stooge who helped out the boss on a couple of tough situations and now deserves a big payoff. After all, the guiding philosophy of winger-run Washington is to loot as much as possible while they have the keys to the house and access to all the credit cards. After all, if government is the problem and not the solution, then where's the dishonor in using government to enrich yourself and your buddies?

[via The Opinion Mill]