Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.
If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.