Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, WashPost op-ed April 27.  Ornstein, who has long studied Congress, works for the conservative, partisan GOP "think tank" American Enterprise Institute.  Mann is at the Brookings Institution. 

MJ Lee, Politico, earlier this morning.  Maybe Bill's exceptionally public-spirited--and enlightened on this stuff--father finally wore him down on this?  Grover Norquist crowd takes another hit.  This would make the 2^nd and 3^rd richest people in the world socialist, liberal job-killers, on Grover's count.  

By MJ LEE | 1/26/12 10:13 AM EST

John Nichols, The Nation, online January 11, 2012.

Robert Brandon, op-ed, Politico, today.

Many news stories have focused on efforts of new Republican majorities in state legislatures around the country to pass laws viewed as suppressing the vote of traditional Democratic constituencies.

But recent actions by some secretaries of state look even more disturbing, given their traditional role as a state’s chief elections officer, with a mandate to administer elections fairly.

Cathleen Decker, yesterday's LA Times.

Reporting from Salem, N.H. --— Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney brushed aside his party challengers yet again Thursday to deliver a blunt general election assault on President Obama, calling him a “crony capitalist” who had put “union stooges” on the federal board that oversees the workplace.

Chris Moody in The Ticket, about 6 hours ago. 

Stacy Kaper and Jim Tankersley, October 20, National Journal online, struggling, yes, struggling mightily--confined in what they can write on account for working for a "respectable" insider and Inside the Beltway publication--to grasp why the GOP presidential candidates are so mum on constructive ideas to deal with the housing crisis.

Um, I don't know, a few guesses on that...:

*they don't have any constructive ideas on what to do about it

Rove, WSJ online, this morning.

Major Rove fatigue on this end--like 8 years of the guy wasn't 8 years too many?  Not that it’s unimportant for folks to know what he’s writing and saying.

What he says is, as here (Genghis has highlighted this point in his writings as characteristic of today's GOP), far more true of himself and his party than of the folks he is directing the criticisms to. 

Jeff Zelany and Megan Thee-Brenan, yesterday's NYT.

artappraiser a week or so ago responded to my wondering out loud about why, with substantial majorities supporting progressive positions on most major public issues, we don't have more progressive policies in the U.S. by saying, in effect, Americans don't trust or believe their government(s) will get it right. 

Hmmm....majorities of us want progressive policy changes.  But...we don't think our government will get it right.  Maybe we would trust...someone or something else?...to get it right?

Harold Meyerson, October 20 Washington Post.

Mark Landler, October 22, NYT.

Yes, under the heads we lose, tails they win rules the Republicans and the Right have succeeded in establishing for awhile now, when something bad, even unavoidably bad, happens in the world when a Democrat is in the White House, this is evidence of the general incompetence and dangerousness of having Democratic presidents in charge of U.S. foreign policy.  When even avoidably bad stuff happens with Republicans in the White House, this is taken as evidence of the critical importance of having strong and patriotic Republicans in power to protect us.

Blog site of David Meyer, a professor at the University of California-Irvine and author of a number of books about social movements.  At the site he describes himself and the site as follows:

I'm a professor of sociology and political science at the University of California, Irvine. I've been thinking, and writing about, protest politics for almost ever. This site offers comments on contemporary events, informed (I hope) by knowing something about history and about the academic study of social movements.

from Andy Borowitz's Borowitz Report, posted today

http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/10/17/a-letter-from-goldman-sachs/

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)– The following is a letter released today by Lloyd Blankfein, the chairman of banking giant Goldman Sachs:

Dear Investor:

Peter Beinart, earlier today in The Daily Beast.  Concluding three paragraphs of this short piece:

Sarah B. Boxer, National Journal, earlier this afternoon.

Dan Friedman in the National Journal.  To state what seems obvious to me, anyway:  If Senate Democrats drop this ball they'll be undercutting at least Obama, and possibly other Senate and House Democratic candidates running for election next year, just at the time Obama has finally woken up and is trying to do something about the jobs issue over the past few weeks.

Time to stand and deliver, Senate Dems.  Our nation turns its under-employed eyes to you. 

National Journal, as reported by Alex Roarty and Josh Kraushaar, this morning.