A Rational Universe

Everyone wants this.

What stands in the way, three things:

* Bureaucracy
* Political gamesmanship
* Change

Three people I talked with today, each frustrated by one of these.

Change is hopeful.
Bureaucracy can be overcome.
Political gamesmanship. I'm lost on that one, unless you decide you just don't care.

But there are those who speak with a steady true voice: take Senator Sherrod Brown, today on the Senate floor. Advocating an unbundling of free trade agreements from extending Trade Act benefits for dislocated workers.

Is he really from the same state as Representative Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House? It would seem Ohio has the best and the worse, or, the most liberal and most conservative. Maybe that's like Oregon.

If he continues to speak with a true and honest voice, it will inspire hope. Maybe it can overcome bureaucracy. Maybe it can even overcome political gamesmanship by cutting through it all.