{"id":1735,"date":"2006-03-25T16:06:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/use-their-incompetence-to-argue-that-government-can-never-work-anyway\/"},"modified":"2006-03-25T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T23:06:36","slug":"use-their-incompetence-to-argue-that-government-can-never-work-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/use-their-incompetence-to-argue-that-government-can-never-work-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"use their incompetence to argue that government can never work anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/23\/AR2006032301133.html\">In Charge, Except They&#8217;re Not<\/a> By E. J. Dionne Jr.<\/p>\n<p>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. <strong class=\"highlight\">They are so much in the habit of trashing government that even when they are in charge of things &#8212; remember, Republicans have controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for all but 18 months since 2001 &#8212; they pretend they are not.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And when their own government fails, they turn around and <strong class=\"highlight\">use their incompetence to argue that government can never work anyway<\/strong>, so you might as well keep electing conservatives to have less government. It&#8217;s an ideological Catch-22. <strong class=\"highlight\">Even their failures prove they are right.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Charge, Except They&#8217;re Not By E. J. Dionne Jr. 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/use-their-incompetence-to-argue-that-government-can-never-work-anyway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">use their incompetence to argue that government can never work anyway<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}