New characters always cause a reshuffle.

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.