Back and Forth

"All the same, Mr Fitzsimmons, if you aren't confused, you don't know what's going on."
--Frankie McGuire (The Devil's Own)

After the 2004 presidential election, I offered to my disappointed sister that she might take solace in the likelihood that the Bush administration would be unable to keep the wheels on the economic wagon for another four yrs, and that in 2008 it would be a bad time to be running for president as a Republican.

Such a prognostication didn't require sophisticated foresight. One merely had to observe the extreme actions being taken by the majority party to paint the surface pretty while underneath these same actions were making a bad situation worse.

The same thing is now happening in the new large and in charge party. The Democratic majority is engaging in pretty much the same types of unproductive economic interventions--they're just taking things to new levels of extreme.

The chances that this will end badly for them are very high. Early election and poll numbers are beginning to reflect this.

One has to wonder if/when the voting public throws of the curse of 'expecting different results from the same process' and regains sanity.