Heartening? Or self-defeating. Depends on whether or not your are an OUTLAW or a “pragmatist”, I guess. From the Hill: The Tea Party is hosting a Tax Day rally on Thursday in Washington, but the Republicans leaders in the House and Senate are not invited. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.)

Just another example of our President treating our allies shabbily, while rushing to coddle our enemies in the misguided notion that they will respond to anything other than absolute strength, both militarily, of conviction, and of will. (h/t Bob Reed)

The Washington Examiner’s Chris Stirewalt: […] there’s no doubt that hating the government and the powerful interests that pull Washington’s strings has gone from the radical precincts of the Right and Left to the mainstream. It turns out that watching Goldman Sachs, the United Auto Workers, public employee unions and a raft of other vampires drain the treasury at America’s weakest moment in a generation will make a person pretty

Dana Milbank, Washington Post: World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow. They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by

This story uses a tone of dismay. But my question is, how can you be dismayed when good people stomp out loathsome bugs before they get into the walls where they can multiply and possibly infest the entire edifice? Let the ritual distancings commence! **** update: or not.

Byron York, The Washington Examiner: The Post Office is supposed to pay for itself, but in recent years has been covering its losses by borrowing from the Treasury. But now, GAO notes, the Post Office “is nearing its $15 billion borrowing limit with the U.S. Treasury and has unfunded pension and retiree health obligations and other liabilities of about $90 billion.” Labor costs are killing the Post Office. Wages and

At least somebody’s getting mileage out of the message. update: The Empire Strikes Back

On the previous post. Sometimes I wonder if those who profess “alarm” at the hateyness coming from the bipartisan tea party movement (who they’ve taken to characterizing as “the far right”) are equally alarmed by demonstrably illiberal attempts to shut down such hateyness. — Or is the shutting down of the “right wing” hateyness out of “earnest” hateyness of evil right wingers a good thing, given that the second hateyness