Hello, I'm A Republican From The Government, and I'm Here To Help

Balloon Juice's Tim F has been following the saga of the construction of the massive U.S. embassy in Baghdad (a 104 acre, $600+ billion fortress), particularly what a mess it's been. In his latest such piece, he uses this mess as a metaphor for modern conservative governance-

"One would expect Republicans to take it worse than anybody that managers of the embassy project handed the project to a firm that never did embassy work before, mismanaged the proceedings and then buried evidence of major safety issues. They won’t, of course. A central theme of modern Republicanism is that appearing to do something is more important than doing it well. The mentality isn’t limited to the embassy, of course...

...Take abstinence only education. Studies have variously showed that it either doesn’t work or causes more underage sex than doing nothing, yet ordering teens to cross their legs until marriage remains a central point of the White House’s education agenda. The disparity between goals and results has gotten so stark that some states have given up federal funds so that they can implement sex ed programs that work. Hurricane FEMA. Setting aside programs that are meant to contradict their official purpose, which include mine safety, climate science and environmental protection, more often than not programs which Republicans want to work still collapse from miserable implementation.

Sure, as a guy who shares almost none of their agenda I won’t be supporting modern Republicanism any time soon. The billion dollar question is why anybody would."

Because liberals are evil, wanna tax you to death, and gay-marry terrorists. Next question.