This WaPo OpEd notices what I’ve been saying for years: The GOP is the problem. Before you cry partisanship, note that one of its authors is from the American Enterprise Institute.
Miscellaneous Heathen
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
They also had a nice long conversation about this on NPR this morning (http://www.npr.org/2012/04/30/151522725/even-worse-than-it-looks-extremism-in-congress) and a book (It’s Even Worse Than It Looks:How The American Constitutional System Collided With The New Politics Of Extremism)