Today's news headlines seemed to me to present an extensive gallery of people not wanting to face the reality of their own actions or situations. I, for one, can't generate much sympathy for:
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber who was released yesterday by the Scottish government on "compassionate" grounds. Even if, as some suspect, he was only a sacrificial lamb served up by the Libyan government, he took the deal. Al-Megrahi, and others convicted of the most heinous crimes, should serve their sentences. Period. If compassion were needed, relatives could choose between his remaining incarcerated or euthanized on the spot.
Howard Dean and the die-hard left wing Democrats for whom he speaks in continuing to insist on a "public option" in health care. In the real world, they'll need to recognize that the ideal is not always (should I say, hardly ever?) realizable. The public option might not be dead yet, but if it dies, it's dumb to keep insisting on it. The answer to their question, "Where's the fruit of our labor?" is that any improvement in health care will be the fruit, since the GOP went for years without proposing anything.
Senator Charles Grassley, who on the same issue has decided to follow rather than lead, to cave in to disruptive protesters. Grassley himself has helped to propagate some of the scary lies being peddled by opponents of change, which led to the confrontations he experienced.
Car dealers who now say they are getting out of the "Cash For Clunkers" program because they aren't getting their money fast enough. They wanted this program bad, they got it bad. Actually I'm pretty sure they've just figured out that what's already been processed is going to exhaust available funds anyway.
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