As large as the deficit is, there have been hundreds of millions of dollars unspent on various projects, $200 million unspent in research funds for the Department of Homeland Security alone.
Where are the monuments that totalitarian regimes always build? The WTC site or New Orleans would have been prime targets for Stalin, Hitler, or Mao to build something massive and ugly.
]]>But the answer to your derivative question lies, I’m sad to say, in the fact that most voters don’t think about politics in those terms. I’m sorry to have to say that as far as I can tell, most voters don’t think about voting, except maybe occasionally for a month or so ahead of the election. And most of them don’t make their decisions based on fitness for office or abstruse general views. They decide based on who tells them the most of whatever it is they want to hear.
Hence, God forgive us, the Shrubbery. Twice.
]]>Woo is clearly a totalitarian while Norquist, though he talks small government, is all about a government of favoritism and redistribution to cronies.
And, create an effective government?
Surely no one, not even their supporters, expected that of the cheney regime unless it was a government effective at creeping up on the rapture and delivering the spoils of peace and war.
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