Quote of the day

Michael Needham, writing for RealClearPolitics about oft-repeated charges Washington doesn't work.

Washington isn’t broken. It is a well-oiled machine that works for the well-connected and responds to the well-heeled. This corrupt nexus of favoritism and cronyism tends to leave hardworking Americans behind.

Damned straight. Most days it feels like we have the best government money can buy, for sale to the highest bidder. Often as not, that bidder is a public employees union seeking eternal security, high pay and fat benefits for little work