Just like Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday, the Second 100 Days is a creation of the 24-hour news RE-cycle.

The challenges we face as a nation cannot be meaningfully calibrated to a 100-day meter.  Life is not a 2 hour action movie, during which the hero and heroine vanquish the menacing threat to our planet and have a steamy sex scene to celebrate a hard day’s work of keeping us safe. 

Pundits think that the citizens of our great country don’t have the attention span to consider the issues.  That we can only think in sound bites.  That scare tactics will taint our thinking.  That we believe that a government can plausibly be measured in 100-day increments.  That the media is keeping government honest as opposed to creating high ratings.

I know we are smarter.