As a couple of veteran Washington observers have recently noted, the American voter of today is something of a nihilist.
He doesn't really know what he wants, but he sure as hell knows what he doesn't want: what he's got.
Here's Doyle McManus, in an opinion column in the Los Angeles Times today, on the subject of a past president now almost universally rejected, by everyone from the Tea Party to the angry left:
It was only by distancing themselves from the Bush presidency and its failures that the GOP won control of the House. That strategy, though, leaves a central problem: They have defined themselves mostly by what they are not. They have rejected both Obama's government activism and Bush's high-cost "compassionate conservatism," but they haven't detailed what their promise of tough fiscal conservatism means beyond repealing Obama's healthcare law.
And here's Tom Toles, in his wryly witty way, a day or two ago from his sketchbook:
Should be an interesting next couple of years.
Kit Stolz 