When someone reaches the top, they usually get fat, lazy, and complacent. And I think you could say that about America and the American people. Although, I think the country has finally shifted gears and is no longer stalled in neutral as it has been for quite awhile.
The America people seem to think so too. The right direction/wrong track numbers have gone up from in the area of 18% v. 81% since last year up to 42% v. 50% this year. That's a fundamental change.
Direction of Country
Polling Data
| Poll | Date | Right Direction | Wrong Track | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 04/20 - 04/27 | 42.6 | 50.0 | -7.4 |
| Quinnipiac | 04/21 - 04/27 | 36 | 63 | -27 |
| Diageo/Hotline | 04/23 - 04/26 | 42 | 47 | -5 |
| NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl | 04/23 - 04/26 | 43 | 43 | Tie |
| Democracy Corps (D) | 04/22 - 04/26 | 43 | 46 | -3 |
| CBS News/NY Times | 04/22 - 04/26 | 41 | 50 | -9 |
| ABC News/Wash Post | 04/21 - 04/24 | 50 | 48 | +2 |
| Daily Kos/R2000 | 04/20 - 04/23 | 43 | 53 | -10 |
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
