Our best hope for changing Washington is not to let hope triumph over experience and believe if we just elected the right person everything would change, but to make the structural changes that will deny the politicians the power they always abuse. Only a smaller government is one that will do less damage when wielded by politicians, no matter what their stripe or promises to behave. Republicans promised fiscal restraint when they took the House, and we got profligate spending; Obama promised to drain the swamp, and yet the alligators and mosquitoes still infest it. When will we learn?
Our best hope for changing Washington is not to let hope triumph over experience and believe if we just elected the right person everything would change, but to make the structural changes that will deny the politicians the power they always abuse. Only a smaller government is one that will do less damage when wielded by politicians, no matter what their stripe or promises to behave. Republicans promised fiscal restraint when they took the House, and we got profligate spending; Obama promised to drain the swamp, and yet the alligators and mosquitoes still infest it. When will we learn?
Any government program with "War" in it is an automatic prescription for big government: drug war, war on terror, war on cancer, war on poverty. Any part of government that a president appoints a czar to run in order to get around senate appointment powers should be declared extraconstitutional and disbanded. The very act of appointing a 'czar' should be grounds for impeachment.