Today's waste of newsprint:
Sebastian Mallaby. End of column basically says Democrats are no better than Republicans, although headlining it as "A Party Without Principles". It would be nice if the Washington Post would hire writers that might investigate WHY the two major political parties are without principles, if they actually believe that to be the case, instead of hacking on the party OUT OF POWER for 95% of an article, only to end with:
I'm not saying that Republicans are at all better, and of course elections breed some policy timidity.
Mahablog is right. Mallaby is softheaded, not so much on his point but his approach. It's the entire Congressional culture that is a problem, and the two party system culture. If Mallaby has a problem with that, fine, tackle them in even fashion. Unfortunately, there's a bigger problem right now - one party rule. Attacking Democrats for secondary issues doesn't help the nation's opportunity to fix a more dangerous problem, particularly when they are really not in position to deal with those secondary issues.