ROGER KIMBALL: WHO GOVERNS? “What do people want government to do? Only 21 percent of those polled believe that our government governs with the consent of the governed. They do not want to be be governed by Democrats. They do not want to be governed by Republicans, either. They want a government that, by adhering to the principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility, will continue that great experiment that Washington, Madison, and Hamilton inaugurated in the late 18th century: a government that managed the great trick of being an exercise in self-government.”