Well Todd, what is the government for then?

So the Indiana Secretary of State has decided that the government isn't responsible for rebuilding after Katrina:

"It absolutely amazed me how quick we were to say that the government was responsible for that hurricane," Rokita told attendees of a program presented by the IU Republican Women. If we continue to think that way, pretty soon we will be living in a country that looks not unlike the former USSR."

Just a little tip here Todd, but currently your team is at bat so I'd go easy on the USSR references, Joe McCarthy didn't drink himself to death to become the new Lenin.

Now that seems to be a dim enough understanding of the role of government, but then he also manages to show just how little he understands the scale of the destruction, and how much it cost to rebuild after a disaster of that scale:

"The responsibility of reconstruction after the hurricane, he said in a post-lecture interview, should have been placed upon the shoulders of citizens, churches and neighbors."

Now that is a lot of yard sales and church bazaars. Except oh wait, there are no neighbors left, their houses were destroyed as well as the churches, so sorry guys no billion dollar bingo games to pay for it all.

I'm not sure what's worse, that this guy got elected, or that somebody lost to him.