Maddow About the Damned Dam? - Arthur Herman - National Review Online
Those little things like facts always seem to get in libs way.
Maddow About the Damned Dam?
Big projects are best built by big business, not Washington.
Hoover Dam has become something of a liberal icon these days. President Obama points to it as an example of the sort of federally funded projects that once “unleashed all the potential in this country” — potential that his next round of stimulus will unleash again. MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow has pointed to the 726-foot-high, 660-foot-wide dam as proof that some projects are just too big for private enterprise. “You can’t be the guy that built this,” she tells the TV screen. Only government can, is the implication.
