The President has a speech at this hour where he will call for the consolidation of several federal agencies to shrink the federal bureaucracy and save money, a return to the “age of austerity” Obama that has faded of late as the election nears and populism returns to the fore.

No one should be allowed to evade responsibility on the theory that collective guilt creates individual exoneration.

Bureaucrats don’t get a pass because they are just cogs in the machine.