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In reply to the discussion: Thomas Franks, the Clintons and "phony" Democratic populists in the New Gilded Age [View all]Skidmore
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Hindsight is always 20/20. You bring to an situation the information and intuition that you have available to at the time you are making a choice and not afterward. While I have disagreed with both of those presidents at times, I am fully cognizant that it takes more than one person to approve and implement policy. What I struggle with more recently is what appears to be the excusing of Congress for its negligence. Congress flat out gets a pass because people have bought into the notion that...well...they are Congress after all. What was that phrase that Bush used? "...the soft bigotry of low expectations".... While Bush applied that phrase in a cynical and bigoted way, it it whole applicable to Congress, which slides by using card tricks and smoke and mirrors. They no longer craft legislation but engage in endless campaigning. It is rotten at its core and we need to turn seats over in 2014 to people who are actually interested in doing the work of legislating.