Gimpy -
I know what you are talking about, and would agree mostly... but would have said the same thing when any other president was in office.
I believe the problem is systemic, and has been from the outset of our nation. The schizophrenia of Federalism vs State's Rights has never ever been resolved, and is selectively advanced depending on whose bull is doing the goring.
Victor Davis recently wrote in the NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE something that haunts me, "Remember that wealthy, sophisticated societies like our own are rarely overrun. They simply implode - whining and debating still to the end, even as they pass away."
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