[ichabod1]

As one Republican senator lamented: “There is a total lack of courage among those of us in the Congress to do what we all know has to be done.”

There were a lot of people saying things like this. So much so that Michael Dukakis tried to make it part of his "platform." History tells us how that worked out for him.

[mcvey]

Yes and the same type of people are now creating a "poor economy" out of 4.8 % unemployment.

It is all in the spin.