No matter what you think of the Tea Party movement, or of a fringe element of it, they have focused like a laser on a major long-term and long ignored problem - the federal debt. If nothing else, both parties might even have to deal with deficit spending in a grown up manner for the first time since the mid-1990s, and that is a good thing.
-- Jim Therrien
It seems that, once again, the Obama administration is making a mistake in not choosing Hillary Clinton for a high-profile post, the first time being as vice president. The Democrats could use an emotional boost right now, and her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court would do just that, and the lift might carry into the November elections. But the president gives the impression of doing it his way or no way whenever a Clinton is involved. Oh well....