You're right. As the world becomes increasingly complex it becomes increasingly necessary for leaders to be able to educate others on complex issues. Otherwise the ignorant mob prevails. Bush failed. Congress was never even in the game. Just pitiful.
I agree with you. The Administration is naive in how they handle these issues, thinking that they can just do what is best without explanation - either that or they're stupid and don't learn.
And Congress continued to spout falsehoods after facts had been out there for weeks.
Reasonable people can disagree about this deal, after knowing the facts (of course since this kind of thing isn't new, where was their opposition before?)
And in forums like this one, people are bound to get into flame wars, no matter how much information is available. We've done it before and we'll do it again.
But for our elected representatives to leap to conclusions before knowing much of anything about the situation, and then to continue to mischaracterize the issues despite the facts available, that pisses me off. They're protecting their own skins first and foremost, too afraid to leave the herd, and too lazy to do any learning or teaching on the issue. That is not what I want in DC.