Subject: txt 1st 2010 libs -
Liberals are at it again. They are worrying that the U.S. is "ungovernable." Political scientist Jay Cost has the details: [snip]
Liberals were saying exactly the same thing in 1980, thirty years ago, in the darkest days of the Carter administration. The mess of inflation, recession, Iran hostages, and gas lines, they decided, was not a direct result of stupid Carter administration policy. It was a sign that America's best days were behind us, and that there was nothing to do but decline gracefully.
You'll remember that U.S. voters had a different idea. They decided to elect a B-movie actor to the presidency, who immediately set about cutting tax rates, strengthening the dollar and cutting government spending. The result was a twenty-year boom. And now here we are back where we started, with a nasty economy, a soft dollar, a failed presidency, and another generation of liberals complaining that the U.S. is ungovernable.
Don't they realize that the founding fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution precisely to make it hard to control the Senate? The founders wanted to restrain momentary Pelosian majorities in the House of Representatives with regional power in the upper house. They set the controls to make the U.S. almost ungovernable -- by design.
It wasn't so much governing as getting government out of the way. So when liberal wring their hands because the U.S. seems to be ungovernable, we conservatives chuckle. That's not a bug, liberals; that's a feature...
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