"the day-to-day outrages of life in the Bush administration"

From Ruth Marcus' column in the Washington Post: Fox-in-the-Henhouse Government.

So it's worth pausing to pay attention to some recent events that similarly underscore the failings of this administration and illuminate one of their root causes: a contemptuous attitude toward government itself. These episodes illustrate the administration's fox-guarding-the-henhouse personnel plan, the disdain of its appointees for the laws they are sworn to enforce and their spoils-of-war attitude toward the government they are entrusted with overseeing:

Read her column and be appalled.

I wonder is it that the Bushies think government is there for their self-enrichment or not. After all, Dick Cheney turned Halliburton into a company that depends on government contracts like a tick needing blood.

Or do the Bushies think that all government being bad, their own mis- and malfeasance does not matter?

Here's a hint: Big Government is not necessarily Bad Government, government exists so that we can all live together in security and prosperity, and Bad Government risks our collective security and prosperity. True, the risks are less for those running the Bad Government and the friends of those running the government.