How not to run the government Part Infinity

Tim has a reasonable piece about why conservatives suck at running the government.

And he brings up an interesting point of the whole Walter Reed affair.

The lesson here is fairly simple. People who use our present circumstances to argue that government can’t manage its way out of a paper bag are either fooling you or fooling themselves. Of course government breaks down when it’s run by people who don’t care to do the job right. Contrary to the bill of goods that ideological partisans want to sell you, that is far from an argument that government shouldn’t take the lead in fixing problems. Rather it is a rock-solid case for putting people in charge who care about doing the job right and have a decent sense of how to go about it.

It would seem mindnumbingly obvious to only put people who are competent on the job. But of course our current government seems to not be able to see anything that is mindnumbingly obvious.

And shows just how flawed the entire conservative idea of government has become.