I can't help wondering why there's all this hullabaloo about "The First Hundred Days" of the current administration. I mean, understand how we got to the point where many folks think its significant; what escapes me is whether or not they realize exactly how silly it all is.
In the first place, do you realise that the only reason the number 100 seems significant is that our counting system is base 10? Can you imagine if we used, say, base 13? We'd be another 69 days until until you'd see people acting like this.
Another point worth mentioning is how many people seem to be astounded at the amount of work Fearless Leader has put in thus far. How is this in any way surprising? The man came into the office with a "To Do List" that read like the Labors of Hercules. Getting any of it done in a timely manner demands he set a breakneck pace, to say nothing of the political realities of allowing for the glacial pace of movement inside The Beltway.
Finally, has anyone figured out that the really hard stuff is yet to come? Or that, moving forward, what happens next is at least as important as what already happened? I'm the first and loudest proponent of the principle that beginnings are important, but seriously folks: obsessing about the past, even to the limits of then vis a vis now, is counterproductive.
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While on the whole agreeing with and enjoying this post, a bit of historical context for you: the whole "100 days" thing started with FDR. In the disaster-area that was the Depression, he set a record for starting things in that first 100 days, both legislatively and administratively. That's what started this whole silly thing, because no one had ever seen anything like it.
ReplyDeleteAs to the hard stuff being yet to come...(oh, I just love it when I'm right...) I note with some glee that Fearless Leader mentioned lifting the cap on Social Security contributions the other day. That, quite frankly, would solve that little problem in one swell foop.