Saturday quote of the day

Fred Thompson looks at the performance of the Bush administration's so-called "governin'" and learns a valuable lesson.

[Thompson's] speech touched on the war in Iraq, the economy and federalism, and on a more general theme: “When you look at governmental functions, you see for the first time in our history this clearly: that the government can’t do some basic things that the government is supposed to do.” He mentioned the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Huh?

The Bush administration puts crony hacks in charge of important government functions and when they prove to be utter failures Thompson takes from that government can't do basic things. I know we saw this coming -- the Bush administration has been a lesson in how Republicans destroy government institutions in order to prove that government institutions don't work -- but, still, it's stunning to see it articulated.