Am I losing The Faith?

Frightening - I was lying in bed thinking almost exactly this last night. (HT: Mark Shea.)

Specifically, the article says, "There is now a distinctive fin de regime stink about Republican Washington." Last night I was thinking, "We're getting into the "Iran-Contra" phase of this presidency, aren't we?" In the sense that everything gets mired down and there's no initiative on intiatives - "fin de regime" is a nice way to put it.

Reagan made mistakes but he cut the taxes, built up the military, and even if he gave us O'Connor and Kennedy, he also gave us Nino Scalia. I think GW does a really good job . . . when he wants to. But how to motivate him???