[john the bowler]

When your country is in the toilet and Democrats are flushing as fast as they can and the Republicans are providing buckets of water to help out with the low-flush toilet, patience and incrementalism is not an option.

[Fred Mertz]

You said a mouthful.

[justshe]

You also can't turn the Titanic on a dime.

Incrementalism is the ONLY way.

You just aren't getting YOUR issues addressed and fixed as fast as you want them to be. Patience is a virtue. There has been progress made. This one fact alone (although a bit out of date, as GWB has had some apptments confirmed)should tell you about the long, uphill task we have of fixing things:

OK.....here's the deal.

Who picked the judges?

Johnson 1
Ford 5
Nixon 7
Carter 38
GW Bush 59
Vacancies 95
Reagan 142
Bush 156
Clinton 359

[Captain Beyond]

ROTHFLOL!!! Good analogy. I will have to remember that one. It will work with a number of other things.

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