Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Special Litigation Section
I don’t dismiss Holder or any of the junta; they are an existential threat to the America envisioned by the Founders, or what’s left of it. What I’m saying is that they’re doing what they can do; they’re not doing any fundamental restructuring or wildly violating laws. I think some laws are violated by some things they do but they’re arcane “inside baseball” stuff that Joe Sixpack wouldn’t care about so you can’t raise much political ire towards them.
If you ran on an agenda of doing away with, say, EPA and DOE, you’d have the Devil’s own time getting elected because the Left would be highly motivated and the squishy middle would be afraid abolishing a federal department would hurt the children or scare Granny, so at best you might win only narrowly and have a very difficult time governing at all and certainly have a tough time with something as controversial as abolishing full departments.
So, you do things incrementally the way Democrats usually do. First you reorganize then you streamline, then you consolidate, then you integrate some functions and before long the department only exists on paper.
And I stand by what I said about Republicans being generally disinterested in the workings of government. You couldn’t staff even a small state government with loyal competent Republicans in the appointed positions and you’d never get more than a thin veneer on the federal government in its current org chart.
