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Republicans, meanwhile, have argued Walz’s actions showed he was a feckless leader who stood by, waiting to be summoned, while arson and vandalism spread through his state’s largest city.

Roughly 24 hours earlier, they looked feckless and overmatched in one of their worst performances of the season, being held to a single run on three hits while striking out 14 times.

The governor was responding in part to a Seattle Times editorial criticizing his administration’s “feckless leadership” of the ferry system, which has struggled with crew shortages and an aging, deteriorating fleet.

McCarthy declined to be interviewed, perhaps because of the ways — feckless, morally bankrupt — your friendly columnist has described him.

Washington state’s iconic and once-vaunted ferry system is in crisis, thanks to feckless leadership over years, which ignored the need for planning and investment to replace increasingly rickety boats.