Responsibility in the Wuxi Water Crisis.

 I asked a salon class about responsibility in the Wuxi Water Crisis.  Was the local Wuxi government irresponsible during the crisis? 

The students actually shirked the question.  The general consensus was that the government should have been more responsible by making laws to make all people in Wuxi more responsible.

Is the Bush presidency dead in the water?  It still has 18 months in office.  It will have history to vindicate it.  But who knows what will happen in the next 18 months?  Bush could turn into a pacifist and not earn the acclaim of the Left.  Of course, he would then not earn the vindication of history.    A writer on the left suggested that since Bush will never earn high favorable ratings for the rest of his presidency, he should just take the moral high road.  He could do this, the writer suggested, by forming a committee of prominent advisors from both major U.S. political parties and work them in a bi-partisan manner.  Two things wrong with this.  First, he has already taken the moral high road.  Second, bi-partisanship is a dishonest and cowardly way to avoid taking a stand on any issue.