We Americans love to complain about our government, which is not too surprising considering we’re a nation born out of rebellion. But more than often not, and more often than most are willing to admit, government gets it right.

The often-maligned Arizona Department of Transportation deserves no aspersions for its nearly completed $200 million, three-year reconstruction of Interstate 10 between Prince Road and 29th Street.

The project is about six months ahead of schedule and under budget. It should be finished by Christmas.

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The best thing state Democratic legislators can do in this budget crisis is get out of the way.

They’re pretty much irrelevant as it is. They’re in the minority and there are no more moderate Republicans to come over to their side at the last minute to make them relevant as happened the past two years.

So they should just go home. No more protests and rallies on the Capitol Mall. No more jeering from the gallery. Just get up and walk out.

And in a year they will have a good chance of rising like a Phoenix to take back control of the Legislature and possibly the governor’s office.

Why?

Because the Republicans seem hell bent on destroying their party and the state.

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President Obama’s push to make minor changes to U.S. health care policy has the demagogues out in full force.

Conservative talk radio is all aquiver about Obama’s and the Democrats’ efforts to cram “socialized medicine” down the throats of the U.S. public.

Republican senators and representatives are making speeches about how passing Obama’s health care plan will be the end of the world as we know it, which is the same thing Obama and the Democrats say will happen if the plan isn’t passed now.

It’s all horse puckey.

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