Cartoon: The GOP's Bizarre Relationship With Itself

"Waste, Fraud And Abuse" Is A Magic Spel Chanted By "Conservatives." To What End?
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/05/waste-fraud-and-abuse-is-magic-spell.html

"The National Review" Admits The Elimination Of "Waste, Fraud And Abuse" Is A Drop In The Bucket

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-national-review-elimination-of.html

Americans Think Foreign Aid Consumes 1/3rd Of GNP. This % Is Totally Hallucinated 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/americans-think-foreign-aid-consumes.html

Alan: Not only are Americans clueless concerning the actual content of the budget, the overwhelming majority of us would blow like a Trumpian Tweet Storm if "the cuts they say they want" were actually enacted "in their own backyard." 

As a nation -- and a culture -- we are addicted to grievance and have no intention of aligning our behavior with fact-checkable reality.