[Poison Pill]

that would still be better than nothing that asserted that it looked beyond this world.

It's not the government's job to look beyond. We aren't short of poets, artists, philosophers and the religious. That is their wheelhouse. The government should boring, myopic and secular.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Here is the messy border between affairs national and affairs government. Should the rotunda be a mere house of bureaucracy? The bible also disagrees: the government should speak well of those who do well.