Posted on 11/08/2013 11:36:18 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
The question many on the left are asking as they witness the Obama administration flail in response to Healthcare.gov’s debut disaster is: How could this happen? Obama is so brilliant, so capable, and so wise. How could he bungle his signature initiative?
Even if he were brilliant, capable, and wise (and he isn’t), it wouldn’t make a particle of difference. One of the central delusions of progressives is that government is efficient and effective and that complex human societies are amenable to centralized control and direction.
We on the right presume government ineptitude. The Washington Post reports today, for example, that the federal employee-retirement system paid more than $400 million in benefits over the past few years to deceased retirees. On the same page, we learn that despite the U.S. government’s $7 billion investment in combatting heroin cultivation in Afghanistan, the trade is booming. Last week, the Brookings Institution published a study suggesting that Cash for Clunkers was a failure, costing taxpayers $1.4 million for each of the 3,676 jobs created.
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Benghazi ping. #9 for today....stoppping now...:)
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My question is; Are there members of congress privy to this Top Secret mission and afraid to leak the truth?
Has to be something other than they are RINO COWARDS.
Must be some NSA info on them they are scared to death about.
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