Ways That Governing Can Work

• By Kristin Coyner
• Roll Call Staff
• Dec. 8, 2009, Midnight

Recent Gallup polling shows that two-thirds of the nation doesn’t trust the government to do what’s right. Regardless of whether you buy into the arguments of the tea partiers, it’s pretty easy to point out ways that government has gone wrong. In fact, the narrative of government incompetence remains powerful.