To judge by his column in today’s Washington Post, Michael Gerson demonstrates a surprisingly poor grasp of the evangelical world. To say (as Gerson does) that evangelicals fear big government is laughable. They love big government — as long as they get to run it.

This is Part Two of a critical review of The National Journal’s Debate on “Our Fiscal Future” between John Podesta and Douglas Holtz-Eakin with Jim Tankersley moderating, at The George Washington University’s Jack Morton Auditorium. This part provides more observations and evaluation on some of the propositions offered by Holtz-Eakin and Podesta.

The themes of “Big Government” and “taxes” are effective messaging tools for corporate “think tank” groups promoting outsourcing to benefit their own interests.

That slick has lots of gunk for the foes of Big Government of ore to muck around in. The criticism of the Democratic administration they’re spewing seems for the most part to assume that their Base won’t notice that their tunes have changed. From a crowd that calls for the government to keep its hands off their medicare, that’s a safe enough assumption.

One of the big myths promoted by movement conservatives is that Big Government and Evil Bureaucracies are the enemies of all Americans because they are staffed with lazy, overpaid mokes seeking to subvert the very foundations of our democracy by doing things that private-sector entities can do much better, cheaper and faster. It turns out that, as with so much conservative spewage, this is a perfect example of projecting one’s own foibles onto your foes.

Virginia celebrates Confederate History Month–psst, don’t mention slavery…

There are thousands of potential projects to improve our infrastructure. One of them finished today!