Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.
Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.
And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.
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