Now the dynamics are beginning to change. Having read the handwriting on the wall, a bi-partisan chorus is suddenly singing the right tune and President Bush is leading the choir. They want to make government more efficient, yes, by eliminating waste. Stalwarts of both parties have pledged to slash waste with a vengeance. Waste in Washington is too entrenched.
Powerful coalitions form around every wasteful government program.
Together, they lovingly embrace and protect the lard. These special pleaders are politically active, vocal and organized. The tax-paying public is politically inactive, silent and unorganized. Here in America those who govern still understand that their power is derived from the governed. The state is not superior to its citizens.