□ What we want to know is, how come Jim Wright, who can knock down $55,000 for a little book he didn’t even write, makes his poor wife work long hours for a lousy 18 grand?
□ Will someone save us from the Hundred Days—the compulsion to compare the beginning of every new Presidency with a few months in 1933? Yes, FDR did a lot then. He also had a lot to do, being in the midst of a Depression. He also didn’t do it very well, since the Depression kept right on going until it was replaced by World War II. That doesn’t mean you ought to do nothing. George Bush, the commentators note, has spent his hundred days like a rudderless dory off Bidderford Light, and there is a semi-consensus that drifting isn’t half bad. Depends on which way the drift takes you. Bush couldn’t save John Tower, made a meager best of a bad deal on the Contras, casually discarded the notion of tuition tax credits in a talk with some high-school kids, proposed raising the minimum wage and then threatened to veto any Democratic effort to raise it more. . . . No need to start bailing. We just wonder nervously what the skipper will do come a squall.
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