Q. Do you have any concerns about your ability to govern given that Gore won the popular vote? A. I think they're still counting the popular vote.
There's scarcely a country to govern, given how far European integration on the one hand and national devolution on the other have gone.
But it remains to be seen if they can successfully govern given how much the system has changed since then.
As Tom sees it, just about anyone from any party will now find it hard to govern, given that spills seem to have become the norm.
"They are going to be in a position in which they have to show that they can responsibly govern, given that they have significant majorities in both chambers".
As John Locke, whose philosophy guided our nation's founders, wrote in his Second Treatise of Government, people agree to be governed, giving up absolute freedom to do as they please, because a society in which there are no regulations is a dangerous place, a "state of nature," where everyone is vulnerable.
"Nothing has disappointed me more than what's happened over the last five weeks, to watch the president of the United States give up on governing, give up on leading and spend full-time campaigning," Mr. Boehner said during a public forum in Washington.
He thinks Bloomberg's elevated "30,000-foot model" of governing gave his subordinates too much independence, allowed agencies to pursue their own agendas, and deprived the mayor of a "feedback loop" that would have made him more sensitive to public discontent.
In this respect, the policies that govern private giving to public schools seem perverse.
In August last year, the government of Bangladesh amended the 29-year-old law governing Grameen Bank, giving more power to the government-appointed chairman to choose the bank's chief executive.
