Imagine your house is burning down and, in a market-driven economy, there are two competing fire companies. You suspect that fire company #1 may even have started the fire, so you call #2 and they come and do their best to put it out. Only it’s still smoldering after months, so you’re a bit miffed. Not to mention choking on the smoke. You’d like #2 to come back and finish the job you called on them to do, except that #1 – the one that may have started it – is blocking the road so that #2’s trucks can’t get through and is insisting they can do the job better. (And they assure you that their crews don’t include any illegal immigrants or gays, either.) And since from your perspective #2 ain’t doin’ squat, why should you throw them your business again?
And so when the Republican leadership held a press conference in their shirtsleeves to present their “Pledge to America,” I couldn’t help but question their choice of costumes. I would have found it a lot more credible if they had come out dressed as firemen.
You know, the kind from Fahrenheit 451: the book-burning, truth-denying, repressive thugs who start the fires to begin with.
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