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Remember "Political Capital?"

To blog  Using Google Reader at 09/30/2008 05:22 AM 46 views
Our leaders have spent ALL of it. Isn't that appropriate? They can't afford our trust, so they have to beg for it, like Bush in his national address last Friday. The people are tired of blindly trusting, and so we find ourselves closer than ever to a revolution with (1) a foreign unpopular war and (2) no money to fund it or anything else.

via memeorandum on 9/30/08

David Brooks / New York Times:
Revolt of the Nihilists  —  In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt inherited an economic crisis.  He understood that his first job was to restore confidence, to give people a sense that somebody was in charge, that something was going to be done.  —  This generation of political leaders is confronting …



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