Washington's secret.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

This is another version of what I call the Washington equation: make-believe equals survival. Deep in every bureaucrat's DNA is an awareness that if his agency actually solves the problem it is supposed to deal with, his agency would cease to exist, and he would be out of a job. It is, as Feldman says of the NRA, "better to fight than win."

Charles Peters...