Kausfiles Strangely Silent on Katrina's Implications for Patronage

To: Mickey Kaus
Re: Federalism, Fingered!

Kausfiles laudably has used the Katrina disaster to beat the drum against Federalism, but has been strangely silent on the FEMA-leadership fiasco's implications for political patronage, which Kausfiles supports, not to mention the more complex -- I have no understanding of it whatever -- issue of how the relaxation of civil service standards under DHS (which got Max Cleland bounced, as he opposed the bill) affected performance.

In related news, Norwegian "Veteran politicians out of work":

"But I'm going to look around in the job market," she said. "There must be someone who has use for the experience I have from politics."

Theoretically, a country with a relatively large public sector should have a correspondingly large lobbying industry, yet the most aggressive lobbying industry in the world is in the relatively low-tax USA. Another interesting problem far too complicated for me...