Washington's Wake

There’s an interesting piece in Real Clear Politics. The author Jay Cost slays a meme running around the liberal blogosphere and legacy media and it’s hard to argue against his reasoning.

Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore. Tom Friedman suggested that America’s “political instability” was making people abroad nervous. And Michael Cohen of Newsweek blamed “obstructionist Republicans,” “spineless Democrats,” and an “incoherent public” for the problem.

Nonsense. America is not ungovernable. Her President has simply not been up to the job.

I think it’s a good article. I think it’s a good recap of how HRH The Sun King has poll numbers right up with “W” when he left office and how he got there.

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