"There are real fights and there are fake fights, engineered to distract attention away from the real deal."

I was out of commission when this played out, but Bruce A. Dixon got it right.

So did Avedon:

- the Democrats could have passed any bill they wanted, and they passed a crappy bill because they did not want a good one.

Oh, yeah, and it's not just an Ahab in the White House, it's an idiot.

Only Nixon could go to China; only Obama could nuke the whales.