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All this failure? It's not Obama's fault; America is ungovernable
Matt YglesiasThe smarter elements in Washington DC are starting to pick up on the fact that it's not tactical errors on the part of the president that make it hard to get things done, it's the fact that the country has become ungovernable.... Ah, yes! I remember that argument from the last year or two of the Carter administration: the problems are just too intractable, nobody can deal with them; the best that can be hoped for is pain management. Sure hope the Dhimmicrats lead with that in the next two elections. We're ungovernable. We can't fix our problems. Troubled cities? Let them rot. Troubled businesses? Bail them out. Failed education? Let the kids go on the dole. Health care too expensive? Sorry Granny, get on the ice floe. Remember Ronald Reagan's response when Jimmy Carter said our problems were too big to be solved? "Maybe for you but not for us. Step aside, Jimmy!" We're suffering from an incoherent institutional set-up in the senate. You can have a system in which a defeated minority still gets a share of governing authority and participates constructively in the victorious majority's governing agenda, shaping policy around the margins in ways more to their liking. Or you can have a system in which a defeated minority rejects the majority's governing agenda out of hand, seeks opening for attack, and hopes that failure on the part of the majority will bring them to power. But right now we have both simultaneously. It's a system in which the minority benefits if the government fails, and the minority has the power to ensure failure. It's insane, and it needs to be changed. This is nonsense in a Brooks Brothers suit with a red power tie. The second comment is as good a rebuttal as I could write: This post is just utter nonsense. There have been no major institutional changes in the United States government in recent history that have caused it to "become ungovernable." There just isn't enough political support to enact various new laws and policies that you favor. Tough.To be fair to Matt Yglesias, he's always been against the filibuster, even when his team was using it. Posted by: Mike 2009-12-12 |
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