Digby: The Retreads Strike Again

Yesterday when reading Jason Vest's interesting historical post about the young Dick and Don agitating for executive infallibility back in the 70's, I clicked over to this story in Mother Jones and read this article about how Dick n' Don also had been in favor of "privatising" government functions back in the 70's:

In 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed Rumsfeld, a 37-year-old congressman from Illinois, to head the Office of Economic Opportunity, which was responsible for overseeing the War on Poverty. Nixon wanted the agency restructured, and Rumsfeld, with the assistance of his chief aide, Cheney, quickly began bringing in management contractors to do the work of the agency's top civil servants.