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So, Johnny Cry-Boehner has a sad about the sequester, telling anyone who’ll listen what a sorry idea it is. But aren’t the Redumbs all about starving the beast, drowning it in the tub, shrinking it to irrelevance, etc., because, you know, “government BAD,” as St. Ronaldus himself would say? Shouldn’t Boehner et al embrace the sequester, and demand it be followed by more cuts?

Or…do they know, as anyone reading First Draft does, that “small government” has never been anything other than racist dog whistle, atLee Atwater at least admitted before shaking loose his mortal coil. Dog whistle…

But some dogs are Border Collies, and others…aren’t. And the ones who aren’t are now the political equivalent of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster on the loose. Their grand contribution to the national discourse, thus far, has been to force the United States to lurch from one manufactured economic crisis to the next (while still dealing with both a war AND a REAL economic crisis)…their idea of a political paradise is rooted in a simplistic understanding of the late 18th century — a century that lacked, oh, I don’t know, electricity, running water, modern finance, not to mention a regulatory regime that keeps hazardous and/or nuclear materials reasonably safe in use, storage, and transit.

No wonder they love guns so much: in their “paradise,” that’s about all you have besides farm labor…