"Never let a crisis go to waste" -- a watchword of the present administration -- finds its deepest, as it were, meaning in the offshore oil rig crisis. There, the idiocy of modern politics impatiently waits discovery.
We're sure to find it. The idiocy of modern politics is that politics has less to do with solving problems than with making racket to cover up the fact that politics rarely solves problems.
We learned from Robert Gibbs this week that President Obama's jaw was "clenched" as he considered in meetings a problem -- the blowout -- that he didn't know how to address. Lack of understanding (e.g., health care reform) rarely silences a modern politician. Therefore the government is:
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