President Bush used to say it all the time: "The job of the President is to confront problems, not to pass them on to future Presidents and future generations."Don't stop there Dan! There's global warming, healthcare reform, capturing Osama bin Laden, New Orleans, the U.S. standing in the world, etc. The list goes on and on, with the next president likely spending much of his/her four years rectifying and mopping up the many messes GW created or chose to ignore. For shame.
But his legacy will be precisely the opposite. He will have created problems that he then passed on to his successors unresolved.
Exhibit A is, of course, Iraq. But Exhibit B may well be the budget.
Offering truth beyond the mere black and white.
"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." -- Antonio Gramsci
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Dan Froomkin wrote yesterday:
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