Our political Quote of the Day comes from Andrew Sullivan on gun control’s failure (again):
Never under-estimate the power of the major lobby groups in DC: from the NRA to AIPAC and the AARP and the Cuba lobby, they are all designed prevent change. Even if that change is trivial.
It’s enough to make the average voter a little cynical, don’t you think? And I find myself feeling the futility of marshaling any arguments against them. They will all have their way. They are the real actors on the political stage – and the president is reduced to a bystander.
My take of a week ago still holds.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.