From the McNeill-Lehrer Newshour:
Republicans have in their minds we are the anti-government party. We came to shrink government. So they say that out on the campaign trail. But when you are the majority party actually governing, it doesn’t work. People want the problem solved. So instead of having a governing philosophy that will tell them I’m going to spend it here but not there, they have a governing philosophy that is irrelevant to actually governing.
Now let’s see if Brooks is capable of drawing the obvious inference. If there are two major political parties, and the one in power has a governing philosophy that is irrelevant to actually governing …
