Tea partiers and Republicans like to pretend that they are all about rights and the Constitution, but in reality, they only care about the rights they themselves plan on exercising. Freedom of religion? Sure, as long as they have the freedom to impose their religious beliefs on you (hello, anti-abortion and abstinence-only activists!) and can [...]

I once had the pleasure of being introduced to Dan Senor during Peter Beinart’s 2003 Hannukah party. We ate some latkes and chatted amiably about Iraq. He didn’t let his mask of smug bullshittery slip the whole time. Everything was going awesomely in Iraq. Sectarianism was nonsense and the economy was rarin’ to go. In [...]

Gerald Seib’s diagnosis of the Senate — its problems are merely a symptom of our political system’s larger dysfunction — is mostly spot on, with the exception of this bit: Yet the real issue here isn’t the number of filibusters and cloture votes needed to stop them, but that there is so little common ground [...]