Coup by Bankruptcy
To continue a thought from my previous post. It's important to understand the Bush administration is based not just on the colonialist dreams of PNAC, but the politics of Grover Norquist, the "drown government in a bathtub" guy.

Norquist's agenda is simple: taxes and government are inherently wrong, must be permanently ended by every means available. Norquist is rather open about how this means deliberate mismanagement and undermining the democratic process until it can no longer reversing his policies.

If those in charge of a system assume it cannot work, however, deliberate sabotage is unnecessary. Malfeasance will happen because they presume it can't be otherwise. Cronyism, reckless plans and lawbreaking are valid when government is presumed worthless. When Rumsfeld asserted looting was a natural part of democracy, he meant America as well as Iraq.

My dream, which I know won't be realized, is a president who would call Norquist an evil shit who is attempting a coup by bankruptcy. Someone to say government is the people, no matter how broken, and we are being drowned in the bathtub. Someone who can say "fuck that" to policy not meant to work and abandon it immediately.