We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?
Andrew SullivanThe New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.
Andrew Sullivan