Utterly Dysfunctional

Now, the federal government is utterly dysfunctional. Its actual capabilities, under any conceivable leadership, peter out just the other side of delivering mail. Our billion-dollar intelligence agencies know squat. Our big entitlement programs are all headed for fiscal cliff edges. The Department of Education is sunk in puerile fantasies about there being no such thing as dumb kids. (Worse than that, even: they operate on the principle that there is no such thing as an un-bookish kid.) Does anyone know what the Departments of Energy, Labor, Transportation, and the Interior do? I'll guarantee, whatever it is, they do it badly.
-John Derbyshire, at The Corner