The trees surrounding Concord and covering the sloped terrain of nearby Walden appear stunned by the drought, reluctant to reveal the swollen green buds still waitingforspring to arrive.
Republicans might be willing to resolve the looming problem of raising the federal debt ceiling by having it increased during the current lame duck session rather than waitingfor the spring.
Meanwhile, the old and obsolete laws collect dust, waiting to spring back to life for all the wrong reasons, sometimes to enforce precisely the opposite result to what well-meaning supporters hoped to achieve.