Posted AT 7:34 PM EST on 13/06/08
The day the House stood still
It is not often we give our politicians the benefit of the doubt, and for good reason. On many of the major issues of the day most of them have all the conviction of a windsock.
When they are forced to declare themselves on a contentious matter, mostly they slip and slide all over the place, more intent in finding a bolthole while the storm rages, than stating their conviction. Every speech of high principle has its built-in escape hatch.
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