Political Hissy Fits

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Now's as good a time as any for this piece from Politico, an excellent assessment of all the noise we're hearing out of Washington DC right now. It tries to play "both sides are equally bad" a little to hard, but other than that a great read.

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The pros and cons of hissy fits

In the course of 24 hours this week, a viral Web video portrayed a Republican congressman calling the president the “enemy of humanity,” a Democratic congressman warned sick people that Republicans “want you to die quickly,” and a New York Times columnist suggested that all the hot talk might lead to acts of violence.

To which the chairman of the Republican National Committee replied: “Nut job. . .”

Read more at: Politico