Michigan GOP Begs Big Government to Solve Flint Water Crisis

After Michigan officials tried to cut corners and ended up turning Flint's water supply toxic, Gov. Rick Snyder is now asking the Obama administration to step in to help.

Whether it's the deficit, the Iraq war, climate change or any of a list of hundreds of other problems big and small, it's a pattern we see time after time:

1. Elect Republicans who brashly slash regulations and public investments
2. Beg Democrats to use big government to save them from the resulting disaster

Considering how badly so many people in Flint have been poisoned, I don't know how Gov. Snyder doesn't go to prison for this.