Guess that's better than saying "9/11 is bad", but this isn't a small town in Southern New England.
I'd go into more detail, but at least one reason most people around here don't like me is because my posts are too long.
I'll just say that the four most important pieces of legislation the Obama administration has presided over, the stimulus, the financial regulation law, the health care law and the tax cut extension of last winter were on the whole badly crafted. Those guys know how to campaign with good intent, and they know how to pass legislation, but they don't know how to craft their good intentions into good policy and make their legislation effective. None of this makes current GOP legislative ideas any better. It just means that, in my view, at a crucial time when the U.S. needs good governing, it's not getting much of it from either party. And since our political process makes good governing all that much harder even under more favorable conditions, my enthusiasm for the coming presidential campaign is not high.
