Legal Commentary

Now that the Government has Proved as Incompetent

By David Bernstein

in first not preventing and then managing a man-made disaster in the Gulf of Mexico as it proved in managing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, can we finally put to rest the inane (not to mention counter-factual) Krugman argument that the Bush Administration?s incompetence in handling Katrina was a result of the government being ?run by a political party committed to the belief that government is always the problem, never the solution?? 

Indeed, if we want to follow Prof. Krugman?s argument to its logical conclusion, given that we have had two administrations in a row that have believed in big government and have proven incompetent, maybe having the government run by believers in government causes incompetence.

Or perhaps government just has some structural flaws that transcend the ideology of whatever party happens to be in power.

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).