So caution and evolution is the order of the day. I wonder how that matches more passionate historical events. Or more importantly who then would such a process favor? What would make one group outlast another? Who would you say has outlasted the other historically?

Spirasol

I wonder how many knock-down political fights could be avoided if only pragmatism were aloowed to take precedence over partisan idealism.

I’vecontacted my Congress people to ask them to support the Faor Election Now act.

frugal

Here is an example of “frugality” — redefining post-traumatic stress disorder as personality disorder so as to claim a pre-existing condition and ineligibility for veterans’ health care upon returning from Iraq, plus sometimes a bill from the Army if they were discharged early. (example story)

I also wonder if “frugality” was behind the reluctance to replace one AIDS test for another when screening donor organs. The transplant organ allocation system is so desperate that it uses “extended criteria donor” organs and even takes organs from high-risk donors. The result this week is word that transplant recipients were infected with HIV and the virus for hepatitis C from a high-risk donor. Yes, it can happen. Was this from cost savings?

Meanwhile, Thompson wants a larger military.

And the price tag for the war?

“Real” Democrats will consider you a traitor, just as they chafe at current Congressional finance rules.

Bush has done it again (at least aping, pun intended, the “frugality” part). What will the whiners do, predictably?