Still beatin' the drum

Mickey demonstrates he still doesn't get it:

Does Coulter want to somehow privatize disaster relief? How does that work? Aren't there some things the government just has to do itself? The 82d Airborne, for example. Would a privatized relief agency be free to tell the governor of Louisiana to get lost in a way that President Bush can't?

Can the private sector tell the government to "get lost" in a way the president can't? Hell, yes, Mickey, that's exactly the point. The private sector is allowed to do whatever it wants at any time, in the absence of a reason for a restriction. The government, in contrast, is not allowed to act unless it has a justification for acting. This is an arcane, not to mention archaic concept called "freedom." (To be fair to Mickey, he may be thinking of a situation of, essentially, war, where the president or the governor has sent in the troops; but to be fair to Ann, and Mickey is competing on her territory with this point, we're already talking about *privatized* relief.)