Sen. Pressler: Strong Governors and State Legislatures filling leadership void in US right now

Yesterday I was fortunate to be able to have a conversation here in the Capital with Sen. Larry Pressler who served three terms in the US Senate representing South Dakota and two terms in the US House. Sen. Pressler was in town to speak at a dinner honoring a legendary journalist in our state Terry Woster.  Unfortunately I don't have a more precise quote but our conversation centered around the key role state legislators and governor's are playing in filling a leadership void in America right now.  He said these are the type of things he's talking about in his lectures these days which I'm assuming are at West Point. Basically he said something to this effect…

Again, this is a paraphrase… "In different periods of our nation's history, our House of Representatives has led the nation. Other times (like just prior to the Civil War) the Senate provided the leadership our nation needed at that time.  More recently (Reagan for example) we have seen a strong President provide that needed leadership.  Now we are in a period of strong Governors and State Legislatures providing the leadership our nation is needing."

Any thoughts on that? I say let's continue to wag the DC dog.