I'm not sure I get this post from Charlie Sykes, when he quotes Mark Steyn:

The same people who say that government is a mighty power for good that can extinguish every cigarette butt and detoxify every cheeseburger and even change the very climate of the planet back to some Edenic state so that the water that falleth from heaven will land as ice and snow, and polar bears on distant continents will frolic as they did in days of yore, the very same people say: Building a border fence? Enforcing deportation orders? Can't be done, old boy. Pie-in-the-sky.

Because if I understand Charlie's positions correctly, he's for the border fence, and against nanny statism.  So if he finds this so amusing (which he apparently does), that means one of his two views must be wrong.  Either he has to admit that the nanny state must be workable, or the border fence is not.

Luckily for me... as a libertarian in good standing... I think neither are possible, which makes Steyn's quote quite amusing for me, without any internal conflict.