Our greatest hope: Gridlock

There is no greater check on power in Washington than two strong political parties.

Safe to say there will be enough secure Democrats and secure Republicans that legislative activity would be winnowed down to the bare necessities — namely, politics without policy results. And that’s fine by me.

What we need now is to stop the implementation of any more bright ideas and give everyone a break.

I was recently reading a Newsweek piece examining the nation’s economic troubles, titled “On Our Own.” Government, the story went on to explain with a straight face, “seems to have run out of ideas for rebuilding the economy, but businesses and consumers are figuring it out for themselves.”

Out of ideas? Hardly. And that’s the problem.