> Specifically it reveals how few national politicians, consultants, staffers, reporters, etc. in DC want to do boring-seeming work like reading a procedural ma

> Specifically it reveals how few national politicians, consultants, staffers, reporters, etc. in DC want to do boring-seeming work like reading a procedural manual and some history. I think Hanlon's Razor is thrown around far too casually in this era/culture....I find it very hard to believe that all of this is mere accidental incompetence.