Shooting the Horse They Rode In On
I can only presume, after watching the Republicans these past six years, that they have chosen to achieve their goal of small government by shooting it. There is no other rational explanation.
The aggrieved portion of this country that has even the smallest tendencies toward liberalism has been in a constant state of buzz. Six years of buzziness, preaching to the choir, assuring themselves that George W. Bush and his accomplices are nuts.
Not true.
The man has trouble with syntax. Trouble with syntax is not trouble with focus and seldom has an administration been as focused as this one. They want, as Grover Norquist has so eloquently put it, 'to cut government in half in 25 years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.’ Norquist, who in certain other incarnations has actually made some sense, must not like horses. He prefers drowning the levers of electoral government to shooting kind-eyed animals.
Either way, make no mistake, they’re doing a damned fine job of i…