From a Washington Post story headlined “Clinton’s wonky policies of fine-grained complexity contrast with rivals’ grandiose ideas”:
“The other two candidates left in this presidential race want to overhaul American government. Clinton mainly wants to tinker with its parts. In many cases, her plans involve adding small — but intricate — new tasks for the bureaucracy, designed to make government smarter, more generous and more just…
“If Congress doesn’t overhaul immigration, Clinton’s plan is to allow undocumented residents to walk into local federal offices and ask for help. Already-busy bureaucrats — armed with guidelines that nobody has written yet — would make millions of decisions about who can stay.”
Given the demonstrated incapacity of government to manage programs and deliver services — think of VA hospitals, the Flint water supply, Washington’s Metro — does Clinton really plan to defend this proposal on the stump and in debate?
