One of the most annoying things about political reporting is how much is focused on elections, and not the public policy that our lawmakers are actually responsible for crafting that can affect our lives and is the whole point of being elected in the first place.
That's why I've strived not to duplicate those same excesses on this blog. On Sunday morning Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan basically laughed in the face of ABC's Jonathan Karl Sunday morning on ABC's This Week when asked if he was or wasn't intending to run for president in 2016.
"Will I or won't I? I don't know. I literally do not know the answer to these questions about what is the best role for me to play to fix these problems for our country in the future.
The point is I don't know the answer because I'm just not putting a great deal of thought into it. I'm not foreclosing any opportunity. I may or a I may not. I just don't know because right now we just had an election. We've got jobs to do."
This article appears in Feb 14-20, 2013.