Posted by
Defend America on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 7:57:20 PM
February 08, 2010
Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy
breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has
become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore. Tom Friedman suggested that America's "political instability" was making people abroad nervous. And Michael Cohen of Newsweek blamed "obstructionist Republicans," "spineless Democrats," and an "incoherent public" for the problem.
Nonsense. America is not ungovernable. Her President has simply not been up to the job.
Let's acknowledge that governing the United States of America is an
extremely difficult task. Intentionally so. When designing our system,
the Founders were faced with a dilemma. How to empower a vigorous
government without endangering liberty or true republicanism? On the
one hand, George III's government was effective at satisfying the will
of the sovereign, but that will had become tyrannical. On the other
hand, the Articles of Confederation acknowledged the rights of the
states, but so much so that the federal government was incapable of
solving basic problems.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/02/america_is_not_ungovernable.html