Reply #180: +a bunch

[quakerboy]

All he had to do was give the enthusiastic voters one big win. On any of the major issues. EFCA. Ending a war. Health care to make us competitive with any one of the other English speaking nations. Hefty investigations on a few of the previous administration who so many of us believe broke the law over and over. And even if a win was impossible, a good solid loud knock down drag out, not going without a fight type fight would probably have been enough.

But they didn't get any of any of it. They got an end to combat troops, which given troops keep dying in combat, rings about as true as "mission accomplished". EFCA died quietly without a whimper. Health care looks like a debacle, without even any clear symbolic win and a whole lot of details that start to jumble, no way to know if it is effective other than to wait a long time. And every prospective wrongdoer has been given a metaphoric get out of jail free card and not one whit of scrutiny.