Okay. Consider it done. But really, Jim, is this new?

Unfortunately — and this is the cynic in me talking — that will probably turn once, say,  John Boehner pulls his best Bernie Bernbaum, squirts a few crocodile tears, and explains the political repercussions of not acting to sanction Obama’s attempt to wag the dog and save face on an ill-timed remark about red lines that of course he never made, and even if he did, it wasn’t him. Everything

While deep-thinking pragmatics continue to express concern that Mark Levin’s call for a reinvigoration of the Constitution could at least appear provocative and, well, unhelpful — it’s no so much the ideas that bother these people so much as it is the appearance of presumptuousness implicit in introducing and arguing for them, and we need to be careful not to alienate moderates etc., by being seen as wanting to reshape