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Dear Jonathan Rauch: Your biggest problems are too large for one person's finances to handle, at least in any consistent way. You have met your expenses so far, a remarkable accomplishment, but you did it with a wingnut welfare position which could evaporate. That is not a trick you can keep performing. Under those conditions, the only way to achieve sustainable bipartisan living is to divide control of your bank account, forcing the parties involved to negotiate in order to get anything done. That pulls decision-making toward the center, which encourages reasonableness.
So send me a check right away. The larger the better. You're welcome.
Jonathan Rauch: “The country’s biggest problems are too large for one party to handle, at least in any consistent way. The Democrats did pass health reform on a party-line basis, a remarkable accomplishment, but they did it by the skin of their teeth and with a Senate supermajority which has evaporated. That is not a trick they can keep performing. Under those conditions, the only way to achieve sustainable bipartisanship is to divide control of the government, forcing the parties to negotiate in order to get anything done. That pulls policy toward the center, which encourages reasonableness.”
Dear Jonathan Rauch: Your biggest problems are too large for one person's finances to handle, at least in any consistent way. You have met your expenses so far, a remarkable accomplishment, but you did it with a wingnut welfare position which could evaporate. That is not a trick you can keep performing. Under those conditions, the only way to achieve sustainable bipartisan living is to divide control of your bank account, forcing the parties involved to negotiate in order to get anything done. That pulls decision-making toward the center, which encourages reasonableness.
So send me a check right away. The larger the better. You're welcome.
