A Government Spread Too Thin

by Patrick Basham

Patrick Basham is senior fellow in the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute.

WASHINGTON - Politically, President Bush may find it difficult to recover from Hurricane Katrina, but not for the reasons you might think. Mr. Bush's real problem isn't aiding the hurricane victims or the search for uplifting Reaganesque rhetoric. Instead, it's the weight of an oversized federal government that hindered both preparation for and the response to this tragedy. It is a government that may fail again during this presidency.