My friend Ben was right

My friend Ben is a Democrat (gasp!) although a reasonable, moderate one. He has often argued that divided government is good government at our Federal level. While I'm too much of an ideologue to agree with him completely, I must agree that this has been the case over the last year. Michael Barone asks and answers the question about why the Democrats after having more political power than at any time since 1964 find themselves in a worse predicament than he has seen anytime in his long career.

“The same people who directed the campaign that defeated Hillary Clinton and routed John McCain, a campaign that raised far more money and attracted far more volunteers than any before it, have within a year come up with a legislative program that is crashing in ruins and that, to judge from recent polls, has left the Democratic party weaker than I have seen it in almost 50 years of closely following politics.”

Of course one could point out that 1964 was followed by 1965 and Tonkin Bay.