Republicans love attacking our government as big, bloated, and useless. As such, one of their much-touted “reforms” from last year was a Sunset Commission, which was tasked with recommending duplicative or useless agencies that should be abolished. It should make them feel better, then, that the commission couldn’t actually find any government agencies or commissions that need to be eliminated:

The draft report of the Minnesota Sunset Advisory Commission suggests eliminating just one state government commission, and even that proposal could be pulled back. The group recommends eliminating the Combative Sports Commission and rolling its duties into the Amateur Sports Commission. But several Democrats on the commission objected.

Of course, they don’t really want to make our government more efficient — they want to all but disband it. That’s why some Republicans insisted on shuttering agencies simply because they can:

“If we’re a Sunset Advisory Commission, and we come back to the Legislature and say ‘keep everything,’ and don’t do some of the things that seem to be are fairly obvious,” said GOP Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer , “it seems like we have missed an opportunity.”

Rep. Kiffmeyer, your own commission didn’t find any changes to make. Clearly there aren’t any agencies that are “fairly obvious.” And pushing to eliminate agencies just because you can is just another example of your party putting ideology over good governance.