THE LIBERAL CASE FOR BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION

In The liberal case for pork, Bradford Plumer argues that “without pork, activist government [emphasis added] would wither and die.” In my (admittedly conservative) view, that statement alone is sufficient to make the case against pork.

But wait, there’s more. Plumer again:

Any big-government program on the progressive wish list will likely prove even more difficult to pass [without pork] .... Single-payer health care? Card check for unions? Reductions in carbon emissions? It won't get done without an orgy of earmarks to entice the inevitable skeptics in Congress. That won't be pretty, but if the price of, say, universal insurance is a bit of borderline corruption here and there, it's a tradeoff worth making.

So just add bribery and corruption to the list of tools the Democrats are willing to use to advance their “progressive” agenda.

Read the whole thing – and weep for America.