On: White House responds to Patent Petition

[plasma]

It's common for politicians to sit on the fence, otherwise they risk alienating some of their voters.

They say things like (not a quote) 'we need to balance both sides' etc even when the idea is truly stupid.

Only a few politicians have some balls to make a decision upfront.

[JVirissimo → plasma]

Politicians that "have some balls" stop getting elected to public office. Your comment is simply a less precise restatement of the Median Voter Theorem, which is very well known to political-economists.