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Fighting a Moral Cause
As Democrats continue their caustic assault on Elon Musk, one must wonder why the mainstream media is so eager to go along.
Charles Litpson in Spectator gives a simple answer:
Musk is the most prominent member of the new administration aside from the president himself. He is Donald Trump’s point man for exposing malfeasance in federal bureaucracies. It is Mr. Musk who determines where the money is going and what’s going to be cut from the engorged payroll.
Tribal Influences
The more the Trump/Musk team succeeds, the worse it will get for Democrats. After all, who created those agencies? Democrat supporters staff them and then funnel lots of public money to specially favored institutions and projects. Musk’s attack on this partisan nexus is attacking a significant source of the Democrat Party’s power and influence.
What’s Really at Stake?
Beyond cutting the budget, the pickings are easy as well as popular. As Mr. Lipson notes, The latest poll shows that 60% think DoGE is helping, and 76% support eliminating fraud and waste.
For heaven’s sake, who are the 24% who don’t support eliminating fraud and waste?
As reports file in on billions in government waste of our tax dollars going to subsidize the left-wing screamers and fearful DOGE protesters, Gene Healy at the Cato Institute agrees with Donald Trump and Elon Must. Entire agencies do need to be deleted.
The Federal Leviathan
The federal leviathan is a creature of statutory law and congressional appropriations, accuses Mr. Healy, which pretty much guarantees that Trump and Musk are wrong to think they can fix it alone.
The shrieking of the left wing will continue. Weeping news anchors of MSNBC and the falling ratings of CNN are all screaming of chaos because their boss treats them as we’re treated, as employees, defends author and radio broadcaster John Kass, who he guarantees you always get a “cup of common sense.”
What is news is the terror that Trump and Elon Musk have inspired in the vast, powerful, and unelected federal bureaucracy by simply asking workers to state five things they did at work for the millions of tax dollars paid to them.
But to think they can do it alone is not valid. Mr. Healy reminds readers that the federal leviathan is a creature of statutory law and congressional appropriations.
There’s no dismantling it without buy-in from the branch that got us into this mess. Reformers on the Hill stand ready to help. The administration should take “yes” for an answer.
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