Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Katrina Claims Another
There are news reports out that the Republican Congress thinks it time to dismantle FEMA. They argue that FEMA was so incompetent in handling Katrina that theres no saving it. When I first read that this morning, I was confused. Seems to me that FEMA worked beautifully during the Clinton administrations? However since Bush ...... well that is a different story.

I also know that Tom Oliphant, former columnist of the Boston Globe is currently writing a book about how Republicans are good at getting elected, but terrible at governance. I think that is true as well.

Republicans hate government. For years, being anti-government has been a key to the GOP playbook. So is it really any surprise that they would want government to not function well? You can then have the self-fulfilling prophecy that government does not function well, and continue to be the anti-government party.

Digby summed it up beautifully:
It's quite a scam. Run on government being incompetent and stealing your hard earned money. Take power. Make government incompetent while lining your pockets with as much taxpayer money as possible. Lose office. Make Democrats clean up your mess. Rinse repeat.
Written at 1:20 PM by Greyhair.
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