Washington really needs to be fixed. At least one place in the West Wing.
Come to the White House press briefing room - a spot that is on television every day - and just behind the cameras you will find something that will make you believe that both Barack Obama and John Mccain are right: this place needs change.
Someone please clean the spiderwebs between the window glasses.
Tear down this web.
Those thick webs might be a testament of how much of a lame-duck this president has become - not only Congress Republicans feel free to ignore their leader's pleas to approve the financial rescue plan but also the White House-keeping staff seems to ignore the need to let some more light into the building.
Or it might be a subtle reminder by the White House to the press what working conditions they deserve.
Or a statement by the press on what they feel about those eight years.
Or maybe no one cares?
When the reconstruction of the room started some two years ago and the briefing center was relocated across the street, the press felt very unsure if they would be allowed back to the White House grounds. Eventually they were - but now it seems that they were not the only ones who survived the renovation.
True, with the financial crisis, there might be more important things in the White House but wasn't this crisis also hastened by years of neglect on the part of government, among other factors?
Small things sometimes point to bigger things.
Financial markets might eventually be revitalized but is change coming to the White House?
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