The Richmond Democrat has an article about Republican corruption and incompetence, and why those qualities are inherent to a party that fundamentally thinks that government is evil (guess they never heard all that "of the people, by the people, for the people" stuff?).Andy Hurst, in the kickoff to his campaign, put it really well. To paraphrase, Andy used the analogy of someone trying to get a job at his law firm by saying, "hey, I don't believe in law, I think law firms are evil, we probably should abolish law and lawyers...so please hire me!" Ha.
Now, here's an analysis of the Bush Republicans by General Tony Zinni, as reported in Thomas Ricks' book "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq:"
"They were nowhere near capable" of transforming first Iraq and then the Middle East, he thought to himself. They didn't know what they were getting into. They were unprepared. His private conclusion that day, listening to Bush and the other administration witnesses was, "These guys don't have a clue."
So there you have it. A major American political party that doesn't believe in our system of government, that doesn't have a clue what it's doing ("voodoo economics," anyone?), and that fundamentally believes that corporations should have more power than workers or citizens. No wonder these guys can't govern.