Tom Coburn: The Year Washington Fled Reality
'Message discipline' can win elections but is not a healthy way to run a country.
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By TOM COBURN
Dec. 30, 2013 7:06 p.m. ET
The past year may go down not only as the least productive ever in Washington but as one of the worst for the republic.
In both the executive branch and Congress, Americans witnessed an unwinding of the country's founding principles and of their government's most basic responsibilities. The rule of law gave way to the rule of rulers. And the rule of reality—in which politicians are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts, as Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan liked to say—gave way to some politicians' belief that they were entitled to both their own opinions and their own facts."...
