but there's so much political capital to burn...

Continuing their sure to be successful quest for global domination, the nice folks at Google have introduced a home page function, which I'm now using. In addition to mail and headlines, it offers up a quote of the day. Today's, my first, calls to mind a president or two:

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
- Frank Herbert