For Crying Out Loud America, Elect a Capable President!

“The core failure of these two men, so different in so many ways, lies in their inability to work with those with whom they disagree. True, Congress is dysfunctional. But in the American system, the president must lead the whole country, not just his/her supporters. The politics of bridging gaps can be ugly. A quote mis-attributed to Bismarck says that two things you do not want to watch are the making of laws and sausage. Yet, building coalitions across the aisle is a sine qua non of healthy democratic culture. Bush and Obama failed. Their failures have consequences, the polarization of the electorate chief among them. The next president will have to fix governance broken by one president and broken again by the next.”

Read more: For Crying Out Loud America, Elect a Capable President! | Ed Rettig | The Blogs | The Times of Israel http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/for-crying-our-loud-america-elect-a-capable-president/#ixzz3AgctDmLV
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