I am not entirely dismissive of the notion that the president has not done all he can with the powers (persuasive and otherwise) bestowed upon him by virtue of his having been elected president, you know, twice already. I believe he has not done enough to break the power of weaponized lunacy in the other party and weaponized cowardice in his own, and his fealty to the Wall Street crowd leaves me absolutely cold. But it’s getting to the point where, if another pundit tells me that the president’s primary failure is that he hasn’t been able to persuade congressional vandals to drop their spray-paint cans and back slowly away from the subway car of government, I might start sending Rahm Emanuel a card every year on Political Carnivores Day.
Me too.