Seeing the forest for the trees

Has the past decade of politics brought us to the point where, as citizens, we don't even realize when the government does something right?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101305530.html?nav=most_emailed 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101018/ap_on_bi_ge/us_prolific_congress

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/business/economy/17leonhardt.html?_r=1