History Is Not Just Cruel. It Is

If We Insist That Public Life Be Reserved For Those Whose Personal History Is Pristine, We Are Not Going To Get Paragons Of Virtue Running Our Affairs. We Will Get The Very Rich, Who Contract Out The Messy Things In Life The Very Dull, Who Have Nothing To Hide And Nothing To Show And The Very Devious, Expert At Covering Their Tracks And Ambitious Enough To Risk Their Discovery.

History Has Blessed Us With All The Freedom And Advantages Of Multiculturalism. But It Has Also Blessed Us, Because Of The Accident Of Our Origins, With The Linguistic Unity That Brings A Critically Needed Cohesion To A Nation As Diverse, Multiracial And Multiethnic As America. Why Gratuitously Throw Away That Priceless Asset? How Mindless To Call The Desire To Retain It 'racist.

For All The Sublimity Of Art, Physics, Music, Mathematics, And Other Manifestations Of Human Genius, Everything Depends On The Mundane, Frustrating, Often Debased Vocation Known As Politics (and Its Most Exacting Subspecialty - Statecraft). Because If We Don't Get Politics Right, Everything Else Risks Extinction.

In The Middle Ages People Took Potions For Their Ailments. In The 19th Century They Took Snake Oil. Citizens Of Today's Shiny, Technological Age Are Too Modern For That. They Take Antioxidants And Extract Of Cactus Instead.

If The President Signs Any Of It, Good. If He Vetoes, It Will Be Clarifying. Who Then Will Be The Party Of No? The Vetoed Legislation Would Become The Framework For A 2016 Gop Platform. Let The Debate Begin.