The Presidency is just like gas prices - they are testing us to see how much we will take

When gas hit two bucks nobody said much so it went quickly up to two and a half. Everyone squaked so they dropped it back to two and a quarter, where silence prevailed. A year later they were back and up the price went, way above three bucks this time. The nation was up in arms about that so it slid back to just below three bucks. The pain was eased and everyone went back to sleep.

They stole the election right before our eyes in 2000, not a dam thing was done about it. They ran roughshod over the Constitution for 6 years and nobody gave a dam. A war that was near universally loved by all when it began went bad, an American city was left in ruin, and the rule of law crumbled before any sort of public outcry was heard at all. We rolled over and played dead while they packed the court. Even now as the first of the filthy pack goes to jail and the press has finally got a spine (ready the Washington Post 4-part article on Richard Cheney) there isn't much of an outcry for justice. Maybe we haven't hit our $3 limit yet.

A friend suggested to me that we have just become inured to pain, have just got used to it, toughened ourselves like the fine steel of a craftsman's hammered blade. In some undefined way he tells me that the public will be stronger for it. Bullshit I say, we've just gone to rust.

On Edit: Corrected name of newspaper from NYT to WP as noted in post below and fixed some little stuff. Sorry about that.

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gin

3rd people are NOT driving as much

people aren't as 'inured' as you seem to think.