Well, nyaaah, nyaaah, nyaaah! Out pops, in the general direction of small-government conservatives, the fastidious tongue of the New York Times itself. Just look at these small-government conservatives, the Times enjoins. Don’t seem to care so much for “small government,” do they, in Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath!
“After Proudly Defying Washington,” asserts the Times headline on Richard Fausset’s story, “Hard-Hit Texas Needs Its Aid.” And, yes, may be entitled to it, the story implies, but not without a rap on the knuckles for disrespect toward the idea the federal government can do something right.
Let us see whether we can disentangle this narrative of the proud laid low and forced to grovel a bit.
“There are few doubts that a Republican-dominated Congress will end up delivering aid to a battered state and key base of Republican power,” Fausset writes. “But along with an outpouring of support, the process is raising eyebrows and drawing charges of hypocrisy.”
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