Benchwarmers

What's scarier than the first two years of the Obama administration?  The next two years of the Obama administration.  Why?  Because for the first two years we were treated to the best and the brightest the Democrats could muster to help President Obama carry out his/their insidious plans and policies.   Now that a large number of his most key appointments and first string wonks have left the White House playroom, Obama now has to draw upon second and third choices for backfill.  This should make us all extremely nervous.  Then again, if his collection of valedictorians couldn't fulfill the promise of a progressive's dream, even with huge majorities in both houses of Congress, perhaps we can all sleep better knowing that a Republican majority in at least one chamber will thwart any further attempts at making us more European than Europe.