After three weeks of partial shutdown, do we need all this government?

After three weeks of partial shutdown, do we need all this government?
After three weeks of partial shutdown, do we need all this government?

My late father, Albert George ‘Ladd’ Alexander, Jr. a Louisiana Republican political leader and political friend of President Reagan, would frequently say, only half-jokingly, ‘Each night I get on my knees and thank God Almighty that I don’t get all the government that I pay for.”

He would definitely understand the political moment in which we currently find ourselves, as the partial government shu…