Thanks to
bfly for
this link.
Some excerpts:
"And don't tell me it's all the fault of right-wing Republicans or liberal Democrats. That's an intellectually lazy argument, and it's part of the reason we're in this stew. We're not just a nation of
factions. We're a
people. We share common principles and ideals. And we rise and fall together."
"It's no better on Capitol Hill. Congress was in session only ninety-seven days in 2006. That's eleven days less than the record set in 1948, when President Harry Truman coined the term
do-nothing Congress.Most people would expect to be fired if they worked so little and had nothing to show for it. But Congress managed to find the time to vote itself a raise. Now,
that's not leadership."
An interesting read that I have little to dis-agree with.