In Praise Of Stasis

Syndicated columnist and National Review editor Rich Lowry has this to say about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s struggle to obtain the supermajority now necessary to pass health care reform:

Reid’s struggle getting to 60 makes some liberals fear that America has become “ungovernable.” In other words, it isn’t putty in their grasping little hands. Unfortunately for them, the Founders created a balky system resistant to precipitate change. It is designed to frustrate ideologically drunken (and perhaps temporary) majorities insistent on passing sweeping, unpopular legislation. Reid’s difficulty is exactly the way James Madison would have wanted it.

Someone wanna clip that out and save it? I have a feeling it might come in handy at some point in the next decade.