We Don't Get Ourselves Dry

There Is Parallels These Two Great Men John Mccain And Ted Kennedy Of Great Impact In The Senate, You Don`t Agree With Everything They Did But Certainly They Had Major Impacts As Senators. Their One Major Political Failure Not To Be Elected President But That Didn`t Stop Them From Having Enormous Impact And At Roughly The Same Age, Exactly The Same Disease. It`s Kind Of A Poignant Sad Parallel.

Before This Learning Experience, I Had Assumed That With Regard To Programs That Sought To Help People Out Of Poverty, The Political World Was Essentially Divided Into Two Camps: Conservatives Who Opposed These For A Variety Of Reasons, And Liberals Who Supported Them.

In The West Everybody Recognizes The Need For A Private Sector, Pretty Much, Even The One Socialist Group Understands This Now, And So There Tends To Be Debate About How Much Public Sector Intervention You Think Is Needed For A Variety Of Reasons, And There Are Very Important Differences On Party Lines That Should Be Fought Out.

Disruption Never Helps Your Cause. ... It Just Looks Like You're Afraid To Have Rational Discussion.

In The Debate Between Those Who Believe In Essentially Unregulated Markets And Others Who Hold That Reasonable Regulation Diminishes Market Excesses Without Inhibiting Their Basic Function, The Subprime Situation Unfortunately Provides Ammunition For The Latter View.