Wednesday, October 08, 2014
The New Bureaucratic Brazenness - Peggy Noonan - WSJ
In the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan offers her opinions on today's bureaucrats. She begins:
"We're all used to a certain amount of doublespeak and bureaucratese in government hearings. That's as old as forever. But in the past year of listening to testimony from government officials, there is something different about the boredom and indifference with which government testifiers skirt, dodge and withhold the truth. They don't seem furtive or defensive; they are not in the least afraid. They speak always with a certain carefulness—they are lawyered up—but they have no evident fear of looking evasive. They really don't care what you think of them. They're running the show and if you don't like it, too bad."
