Gentle Readers, Dear Mr. Goodman, Excellent column, Sir, but you missed the most important factor, which is the bias in the liberal media. Republicans could craft the best legislation in human history, and the media will blame them for everything wrong and credit the Democrats for everything that goes right. They've been doing it for decades. TOWNHALL is part of the solution to that problem, but Republicans and Conservatives have to take a proactive approach to media management, and work to get their messages to the public and the voters, bypassing the liberal media, if necessary. Sincerely, John Lepant Brighton CO