A Sea Change

A Sea ChangeRemember that marvelously effective little television commercial from the campaign wars of 1980---the one in which burly, white-thatched actor hired by those devilishly clever Republicans so unmistakably the most powerful and prominent Democrat in Congress, the similarly burly and white-thatched Speaker of the House of Representatives, as arrogant glutton who neither knew nor cared that his big, black, gas-guzzling automobile was rapidly running out of fuel until it did?I asked him--...