So the Senate finally gets around to appointing a permanent ATF director after seven years. Oftentimes when agencies seem inept and ill-managed, the fault lies with wizards in the legislature willing to play such games for political ends both specific and global. Here, the specifics are an ATF the NRA would rather see dead and the global is a Republican Senate Super-Minority willing to hobble government administration at any turn so as to better run against “the beast” in future elections and show loyalty to Godfather Grover Norquist, the anti-tax crusader who has decreed a starvation diet for the federal government.