Katrina Coverage

Mac Johnson:
Republicans once fought to reduce the size of government and restore power -- which is manifested in money -- to the people that generated it. Now they fight for a community swimming pool or a fish hatchery or one more lane on a suburban interstate.
Why? Because they can now take credit for it. The bribe they hated when it worked for their opponents, they love when it works for them.
So the party in power has changed and yet Government grows. Affirmative action and quotas grow. The border is opened ever wider. Debt grows. Regulation grows. Productive areas are still taxed to subsidize failed areas. And it's all in a quest for one more vote. It is the pandering of ambitious whores unburdened by principle.
And the Democrats only regret is that they can't be the ones taking full credit for it all.
Teach a man to fish and you may feed him for a lifetime -but who needs that? Give a man a fish and he will know where to beg for his next meal. And since you can just tax and borrow all the fish you need, why not pass out "free" tartar sauce while you're at it?
I am totally disgusted with our President's "plan" for the Gulf Coast. Here's a different plan: quit planning. Let people live according to what is efficient and naturally rewarding. Quit subsidizing life in a hole by the sea. Quit deciding what zones will be enterprising. Quit deciding what color of entrepreneurs should be successful. Quit being the new party of Big Government...