President of the United States runs the "big government" he's attacking

[kurth]

In Charge, Except They're Not
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, March 24, 2006; A19

Is President Bush the leader of our government, or is he just a right-wing talk-show host? The question comes to mind after Bush's news conference this week in which he sounded like someone who has no control over the government he is in charge of. His words were those of a pundit inveighing against the evils of bureaucrats.

"Obviously," said the critic in chief, "there are some times when government bureaucracies haven't responded the way we wanted them to, and like citizens, you know, I don't like that at all." Yes, and if you can't do something about it, who can? Bush went on: "I mean, I think, for example, of the trailers sitting down in Arkansas. Like many citizens, they're wondering why they're down there, you know. How come we've got 11,000?"...

This episode is important because it is representative of a corrosive style of politics. Bush and many of his fellow Republicans have done a good business over the years running against the ills of Big Government. They are so much in the habit of trashing government that even when they are in charge of things -- remember, Republicans have controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for all but 18 months since 2001 -- they pretend they are not.

And when their own government fails, they turn around and use their incompetence to argue that government can never work anyway, so you might as well keep electing conservatives to have less government. It's an ideological Catch-22. Even their failures prove they are right...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032301133.html

[MichiganVote]

1. Bush thinks the government is a nuisence

[standup]

3. The role of government is to help corporations not people

according to Bush

[SpiralHawk]

2. It's an ideological Catch-22.

Even their failures prove they are right.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. So the 06 campaign is now in full swing.

Foreign policy failures are the fault of the damn librul media, lead by that commie helen thomas. The domestic failures are the fault of 'big gummint' which of course means those damn libruls who, while completely out of power for the last four years, and mostly out of power in congress since 1994, have still managed to spend us into ruin. Damn them. Why do they hate murka?

I sure think that it is time for another Big Tax Gut. Taxguts have become like Toga Parties in Animal House: when things are down, when it is really hopeless, Bluto is there to start the chant - "taxgut! taxgut! taxgut! taxgut!".