We promise to scale back the size of the increase in government, but promise to never fundamentally undo what the liberals have done before us. Although we say we trust the American people, we really don't, because we are almost as smart as the Democrats. We will routinely cede the initiative to liberals and will allow them to set the terms of debate. We believe in judicial restraint, but since jurists who believe in original intent are controversial, we will nominate tepid nobodies like Justice Souter. Both parties claim the mantle of pragmatism, but it is clear from this exercise that the pattern of the past 70 years continues.
Democrats control the debate and the direction of politics.
They have the will to power based on a self-confidence bordering on arrogance. They needn't be. It has been fundamentally broken by liberal tinkering. The clock doesn't need turning back, it needs fixing. It makes me sad that no one in this silly season has the guts to tell the American people that the clock is broken, or to take out our forefathers old but useful tools and fix the damn thing.