Government is Magic...

Government is Magic...  Daniel Greenfield has a great piece up on his blog Sultan Knish.  His lede:

Our technocracy is detached from competence. It's not the technocracy of engineers, but of "thinkers" who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch TED talks and savor the flavor of competence, without ever imbibing its substance.

These are the people who love Freakonomics, who enjoy all sorts of mental puzzles, who like to see an idea turned on its head, but who couldn't fix a toaster.

The ObamaCare website is the natural spawn of that technocracy who love the idea of using modernity to make things faster and easier, but have no idea what anything costs or how it works.

Speaking as an engineer with at least a modicum of competency, this rings very true to me.  They (the administration) seem to think that every problem is easy – all they have to do is sprinkle a little magic techno-dust on it, and it's solved...