well not really you see this is not a case of subjunctive....as i said in my first postr (cite fowler here)...there is no sequence of moods in english... therefore, for example, we do not say "if i were to say i were happy" we say,

i can't seem to find a hard-and-fast rule for a situation like this: "I wish I could say (that) I was happy" (if the speaker is attempting to express that he/she IS NOT HAPPY RIGHT NOW) would it be incorrect to express this as: "I wish I