The thing Mr. Obama is doing that most shoot-themselves-in-the-foot liberals don't quite grok is that he is eschewing retribution and looking forward to solutions. It is a shame that the legal criminals who have sucked the life right out of our environment and economy don't swiftly and certainly get their due, and how good it would feel if they would, but feeling good is not what it's about. It's about fixing the problem. It's about steering this out-of-control barge away from the edge of Niagara Falls. We have to look forward--it's like how front wheel drive can accelerate a car out of a skid, to hopelessly mix metaphors. .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Shame is the most powerful "due" a criminal can ever be sentenced to, and we all must struggle to reign in the mob-member in each of us that can't settle down enough to savor that slower form of revenge. Please focus on the positives right now, Mr. Scheer. The will to survive and grow is the only source of solutions, and we are at a historical inflection point where the solutions we invent will determine in a huge way the path of human civilization.