It's Better For The Country When Each

The Democrats Had Long Labeled The Impeachment Debate A Distraction From The Urgent Business Of A Great Nation. But The Republicans Argued That The Pursuit Of Justice Is The Business Of A Great Nation. In Winning This Point, They Caught The Falling Flag, Producing A Triumph For The Rule Of Law, A Reassertion Of The Belief That No Man Is Above It, And A Rebuke For An Arrogance That Had Grown Imperial.

I Think Miracles Exist In Part As Gifts And In Part As Clues That There Is Something Beyond The Flat World We See.

I Guess The Second-term Team Is Not Quite As Adoring As The First.

What We Need Most Right Now, At This Moment, Is A Kind Of Patriotic Grace - A Grace That Takes The Long View, Apprehends The Moment We're In, Comes Up With Ways Of Dealing With It, And Eschews The Politically Cheap And Manipulative. That Admits Affection And Respect. That Encourages Them. That Acknowledges That The Small Things That Divide Us Are Not Worthy Of The Moment; That Agrees That The Things That Can Be Done To Ease The Stresses We Feel As A Nation Should Be Encouraged, While Those That Encourage Our Cohesion As A Nation Should Be Supported.

Our Patriotic Fervor Was The Result Of The Old And Widespread Belief In The Idea Of American Exceptionalism, The Idea That America Was A New Thing In History, Different From Other Countries. Other Nations Had Evolved One Way Or Another, Evolved From Tribes From A Gathering Of Clans, From Inevitabilities Of Language And Tradition And Geography. But America Was Born, And Born Of Ideas: That All Men Are Created Equal, That They Have Been Given By God Certain Rights That Can Be Taken From Them By No Man, And That Those Rights Combine To Create A Thing Called Freedom.