Over at Dynamist.com, Virginia Postrel makes an excellent argument in favor of government gridlock.
One quote that stands out:
[B]ig-spending Republicanism isn’t an alternative to social issues. It’s a complement–and one that (I hope) may eventually backfire. By jetisoning any pretense to free-market principles, the GOP is defining itself entirely as the party of the religious right.
An all too accurate portrait of the way things are these days in Disneyland on the Potomac, leaving this libertarian wondering where he belongs.
