Tony Blankley thinks they are.  Or maybe he’s indulging the same kind of starry-eyed optimism that swept into office the current purveyors of irrational exuberance that threaten to bankrupt the country and enable terrorists through Chamberlainesque appeasement policies.

If you’re not bored with the futility of it all, you can decide for yourself here.  Otherwise, be content with the musings of Bob Dylan, who probably has political credentials no worse than most of our so-called pundits.  One way or another his words are likely to prove prophetic:

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.