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If my synopsis is generally accurate, then the WH staff needs to resign now. This country, and this President, is being ill-served by a staff that is out of touch with its base. I firmly believe that they are worn out and bereft of new ideas, and have lost the "eye of the tiger." I haven't seen them seriously engage the Democrats on policy issues since the election, and it looks like they're just trying to run out the clock.

Looks to me like you've had enough FReeping time to have a pretty darned good handle on things.

Thanks, EV. I haven't really focused on much of anything since my daughter informed us she's spending spring break at South Padre next week.

There's been a lot of praying for her and pleading with her to be extremely careful next week. She's a great kid who is working through the growing pains of her freshman year in college. She still hasn't fully grasped the "one hour in class, two hours in homework" that her mother and I went by in college. I've never told her that I had more than a few classes at Gonzaga where they were "1/3" or "1/4", especially the philosophy and religion courses.

I know this is off-topic, and there's a "spring break" thread, but I never really had a spring break. All 4 years of college, we had a 4-day ROTC "spring camp" at Fort Lewis, which was run completely by the seniors. After 4 days of no sleep and harassment, I just enjoyed heading home for a couple of days and Mom's home cooking.

One year, I spent a few days at a friend's house in Port Townsend. I saw where they filmed much of "An Officer and a Gentleman". Beautiful country up there, and it was a great respite from school and ROTC (at that time, we jokingly called Gonzaga ROTC, "West Point West"). My class had a pretty good record: out of 25 graduates, over half went RA, and we still have one on active duty: MG Jason Kamiya, Army operational commander in Afghanistan.

Sorry for the rambling, but it's been hard to keep focused.