"Instead of chiding," Ms. Slaughter says, "perhaps we should face some basic facts.
Perhaps we should face reality and accept that it was the party rather than the people who got it wrong.
Who knows, I thought, perhaps we all face our own challenges!
If the US exercises monetary policy in combination with budget deficit, perhaps we will face the same fate as Japan.
Perhaps we are facing a battle for the soul of our nation?
"But perhaps we are faced with the possibility rather of a 'two-track' model, two ways of witnessing to the Anglican heritage, one of which had decided that local autonomy had to be the prevailing value and so had in good faith declined a covenantal structure".
If reasoned discourse is no longer welcomed in a "blind faith" political system, then perhaps we are facing the End Times of our democratic political system.
"Of all the interconnected problems we face, perhaps the most serious is the proliferation of our own species," says Sir Crispin Tickell, a former British ambassador to the UN, now an environmental guru.
Now, with Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England warning that we face perhaps the greatest financial crisis in history, the time for cheap political point-scoring and comparisons with banana republics is over.
