Sunday, January 31, 2010
A failure of leadership
Frank Rich looks at the failure of our government in recent years to enact any significant need legislation due to a marked lack of leadership. He defines that leadership and provides a lengthy bill of indictment of the failure. In the end however, one paragraph says it all about the state of the Union.
Americans like Obama far more than they like any Congressional leader. They might even like more of his policies if he spelled them out. But none of that matters if no Democrat fears him enough to do any of his bidding and no Republican believes there’s any price to be paid for always saying no.
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