Fitful attention is all this administration can muster. Invade Iraq? Brilliant! Let's do it! Prescription drug program? Brilliant! Let's do it! Go to Mars? Bring peace to the middle east? Reform immigration? It's like a mediocre student who wants to be valedictorian but doesn't do their homework and regularly rushes to complete term assignment in the last days of the semester. The most likely to succeed, not!
Inadequate preparation, abbreviated debate, and legislation quickly passed through a compliant Congress, this is what happened with Iraq and prescription drugs. Both are now seen as expensive mistakes. Immigration reform seems to be headed toward the same fate. As with prescription drugs, we hear that the politics are complicated and that building a majority requires quick, quiet deals. More likely, a good deal requires consistency, compromise, and caution.
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