A Lackluster Beginning

This has been a very disappointing 3 months since the President's Inauguration. Standing behind the Capitol in the frigid conditions of that overcast day, I listened to President Bush rattle off a litany of goals he had for his second term. Among them were Social Security Reform and further Education Reform. He also talked about the importance of spreading democracy across the globe. He should have stuck to foreign policy. The Social Security effort hasn't moved off the starting blocks, and the President's approval rating has sunk to an all-time low. There's just something about 2nd Terms that aren't worth a whole lot. It might just be the only legitimate reason to repeal the 22nd Amendment: no more lame ducks. It hasn't helped that the Republicans in Congress have become the same kind of cowards that the Democrats were when they were in the majority. I'm not talking about all of them, just a whole lot of them. What will it take to get their attention? My fear is that it will take a major defeat at the polls. If things don't change soon, we'll be looking at Speaker Pelosi.