the Santa Claus of Washington D.C. does by chance make the inauguration season dreams of a few good little boys and girls come true
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/16/open_source_letter_to_obama/page2.html

also good in the same article:
"If you take two parts pathological aversion to risk, mix it together with one part apathy and a jigger of laziness, what you get is the government workforce culture."