Idaho Freedom Foundation Executive Director Wayne Hoffman says state policymakers “continue to suck up as much federal money as they can, even when our better judgment tells us we are on a dangerous course.” In an op-ed in Monday’s Twin Falls Times-News, Hoffman notes that the share of state appropriations covered by the federal government has risen from 32 percent to 36 percent in a decade. But, Hoffman writes, neither the January spending cuts under the sequester nor the current government shutdown “seems to be moving Idaho officials to consider the ramifications of our cuddly relationship with the wayward national government.” Hoffman likens the feds to an excessively sexually indulgent and inebriated roadside panhandler. Only worse/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman. More here.

Question: Would you compare the federal government to an "excessively sexually indulget and inebriate roadside panhandler?