WHAT DO COLLEGE PROFESSORS AND FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS HAVE IN COMMON? Neither of them can be fired (once the former get tenure and the latter survive their probationary first year), which means no accountability and endless horror stories. It’s so tedious and time-consuming to fire a federal worker, according to Katie Watson of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group, that managers almost never even try.

Former Sen. Tom Coburn told Watson that the impossibility of firing a fed is one of multiple “symptoms of a greater and bigger problem. You have an uncontrolled federal government that nobody can manage.” And when government is too big to manage, it’s time to start over. That’s why Coburn is pushing this.