Its an awfully old governmental system we have in the US. Yurpeans tend to have more modern 19th century institutions, either by evolution or tearing down and reconstruction of Republics.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

Since I never hoped that a Hedge Fund Democrat would be anything else, while unhappy with his economic decisions, I was never really disappointed in them.

It is the moderate authoritarianism of the Justice Department that is disappointing to me, since the Democratic supporting Hedge Fund managers tend to be socially liberal. The Obama administration talks a moderate socially liberal game plan, but regularly delivers moderate authoritarian plays.

Since those are things that can not be blocked by Senate Filibuster, all of the "Senate did not let me" excuses fall away for those. If it was a political calculation to avoid sparking culture ways, it was a foolish one: culture wars are not caused by the talking points, they are caused by something else and the talking points are to mobilize the ground troops.

But since the Health Care debate and efforts to protect Wall Street from destroying itself were always bound to attract massive money to mobilize those ground troops, there was nothing to be lost in doing things to make socially liberal types happy.

So that is the disappointment. I knew he was a economic neoliberal, but its been disappointing to see that he was not a socially liberal economic neoliberal

Its like keeping the large number of bad bits of a European Liberal Party platform and tossing the smaller number of good bits to the side.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.