Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Politics is about moralizing. Ergo, problems.

Governance involves deciding for people what we can or cannot do. It is a kind of moral police. Most of us fully understand that we don't, and can't, always practice what we preach. But, sometimes the dissonance is too much to ignore. And that is what Tom Daschle ran into. On the one hand, I feel sorry for the guy. On the other hand, this is, unfortunately, the nature of the ballgame--more so in the YouTube era:

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