I couldn't be a blogger without him.
No sooner do the dog days of summer roll in than Jeff puts on his best ideological binders and starts hammering away desperate to force a quicksilver world into his harsh little conservative mold.
Today he made the astonishing assertion that FEMA's statist big gummint' approach to post Katrina hurricane relief was a failure (true enuff) and that private charities did the whole job better, quicker-n-cheaper yadda yadda yadda.
Nowhere in this hymn of praise to rugged individualism did Jacoby mention that his President as a debased sort libertarian ideologue has a vested interest in making sure the bureaucracy runs with catastrophic inefficiency. How else to wean that seemingly greedy infant the American public off the Federal teat?
Jeff also managed to ignore the appointment of former horse pimp Michael Brown as the head of FEAM and the ongoing craven ineptitude of DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff a man who hasn't the sense ghod gave a professional wrestler.
Nope somehow it is the very existence of FEMA that let New Orleans down sez Jeff, therefore ALL such goverment functions should be privatized or sold off to People's Temple.
However, the question remains, does Jeff Jacoby really believe any of this nonsense?
Because in order for Jeff to believe his own thesis he has to ignore the reams of evidence pointing to malfeasance at the top of the decision chain.
Or is Jeff simply spinning the evidence in order to build up the case against "big gummint" in the sneaky fashion of the true blue praetorian?
What is he?
A true believer or a hack?
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