Dumb Luck Will Have To Be Good Enough
Obviously, sometimes it’s not. But if we get a change in political control of the House and Senate after the mid-term elections in November, we will have received dumb luck by virtue of an opportunity to upset George Bush’s strangle-hold on government at the same time his popularity is in free-fall.
Smart luck hasn’t worked, blocked at every turn by a combination of Republican control and Democratic hesitancy—in fact it has largely been Democratic uselessness at fault. Nevertheless, we've run on as a nation, loose cannons, indictable offenses, hysteric punditry and fear-based politics overwhelming the courage and optimism that made us great.
It’s no longer a partisan issue to claim the choices made by this administration have been wrong. Americans, by a two-thirds margin agree. Democrats, in my view voice too loud a complaint without any real programs, solutions or ethical integrity of their own. Republicans, desperate to maintain their majority, try every which way to distance themselv…