The root of the problem
As you should know from my frequent mentions of it, I'm currently reading Carl Sandburg's two-part biography of Abraham Lincoln. Much to my suprise, I found when Sandburg described Lincoln's first Innaguration Day, he confirmed something James Taranto has pointed out many times (for an example, look in his columns for for the frequent "Homelessness Rediscovery Watch" entries):
March 4 dawned with pleasant weather that later turned bleak and chilly for the 25,000 strangers roving Washington. With hotels and rooming houses overcrowded, hundreds had slept on the porches of public buildings and on street sidewalks.Thus proving that homelessness has been caused by Republican presidents since the very beginning of the Grand Old Party.
