Washington, D.C. is a dysfunctional mess. Just about nothing gets done unless it absolutely has to get done. And when things do get done – they are just about always horrible. Bigger and bigger government, over and over again, as far as the eye can see.

This week in Congress is all about the budget. Both the House and the Senate are preparing to debate different House and Senate crafted budgets for fiscal year 2016.

It would be nice if the Pentagon could at least give Congress evidence it’s trying to understand its purpose for existing and the limits to what it can, or should, do with all the money it gets each year.

“We have, basically, a poverty management system with respect to the federal government.”

Is there a courageous leader out there with the guts to save America from those who are recklessly spending it into oblivion?

The media lets Barack Obama be as nasty and divisive as he wants to be.

Big Labor pledges it will go all in, again.

He unveiled it Tuesday, a month late.

Does Obama think we have no memory, or that we’re just ignorant?

Deficit under $1 trillion at last? Time for a spending spree!

Obama’s presidency illustrates the perils of government run by believers in magic words and numbers.

What are takeaways for us trounced taxpayers?

There is no ladder of opportunity here.

President Obama must believe he’s politically untouchable at this point.

Nothing is being reformed.

Both states are more similar than anyone would like to admit.

The Wisconsin governor knows how to budget.

Talking about a problem is one thing, and using one’s political capital to fix it is quite another.

The latest in our endless series of emergency omnibus bipartisan trillion-dollar spending measures.

The solutions Democrats advocate are pitifully inadequate or painfully perverse.