The VA Scandal

It’s the face of government as it actually exists.

Between ObamaCare, the IRS, the VA, and now the EPA, it’s been a bad year for cheerleaders of big government. Which means a good year for liberty. We’ll see what it means in November.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Note Glenn’s quoting of Pournelle’s law of bureaucracies:

…the strongest priority of most bureaucracies is the welfare of the bureaucracy and the bureaucrats it employs, not whatever the bureaucracy is actually supposed to be doing.

I often say that there are a lot of good people at NASA, and there are. But they are trapped in a similar system.