Thomas Friedman writing in the Wednesday New York Times:
I can't put my finger on it exactly, but you feel today in Washington a certain laxness, that anything goes and that too few people working for the federal government take pride in their work because everything is just cobbled together by Congress and the White House at the 11th hour anyway.
He offers a case in point. Visiting the White House, he passed through a Secret Service checkpoint and grabbed a door handle to proceed onto the White House driveway.…
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