Vice President Cheney today:
Now, the year 2018 may seem like a long way off, and in politics there is always a temptation to kick the can down the road — hoping that long-term problems might simply disappear, or leaving them for someone else to worry about. That is not how President Bush views his job. As he’s said many times, he ran for the presidency to confront big challenges, not to pass them along to future Presidents and future Congresses.
Yes indeed. We wouldn’t want leaders who passed long-term problems off for someone else to fix, would we?