[Dilbert San Diego]

So we don’t want permanent solutions? We only want short term ad hoc solutions to problems? No longer term thinking is allowed?? What the heck is he trying to say?

[Paladin2]

Congress critters don’t like to fix the problems, they like to fix the blame as election issues, year after year.

[Westbrook]

What the manky Buttplug is trying to say is that the only acceptable permanent solutions are “green” solutions.

A pipeline is a permanent fixture, after all, and the elitist sodomites and pedophiles would not want that. Pipelines lower the costs of mobility for the Hoi Poloi. Elitists like him and his fellow travelers are all set either way. They just want to limit the mobility and standards of living of the commoners and deplorables.

[Steely Tom]

So we don’t want permanent solutions? We only want short term ad hoc solutions to problems? No longer term thinking is allowed?? What the heck is he trying to say?

The strategy of "Never let a crisis go to waste" is not helped by "permanent solutions."