David Ignatius:

The Republicans behave as if the country agrees with them on issues, when that demonstrably isn't so. The country doesn't agree about Social Security, doesn't agree about the ethical issues that were dramatized by the torment of Terri Schiavo, doesn't agree about abortion .... Principles are a fine thing, but a narrow, partisan definition of principle has led the Republicans to a dead end. Their inability to transcend their base and speak to the country as a whole is now painfully obvious. Like the Democrats in their years of decline, they are screaming at each other -- not realizing how far they have drifted from the mid-channel markers that have always led to open waters and defined success in American politics

It will be very interesting to see just how far the right wing will be willing to go in sabotaging the GOP during the upcoming Miers hearings. Very interesting in a watching-a-rat-chew-its-foot-off kind of way.

No problem ... my man John McCain is standing by to pick up the pieces.  ¶ 9:03 PM