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2016 Postmortem

MyshkinCommaPrince

(611 posts)

2. Govern well?

Reply to ladjf (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 05:00 PM

Dec 2012

Not to quibble. But I'm not convinced that there's any recent evidence - in decades, perhaps - to support the idea that Repugs want to govern well, by any standards that we would accept. They actually seem to want to un-govern. They want to get the jobs so they can deliberately not do them. Possibly I just haven't been looking at instances where they behave to the good of the public and the country as a whole.