Shhhh! Don't Tell The Public, But The Major Parties Are NOT Both Doing It!

Amazingly, it's right out there, in print, in a book by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, It's Even Worse Than It Looks, in which they document the ways in which the GOP, not the Democratic Party, is overwhelmingly to blame for the decaying relations that have rendered our government very nearly wholly dysfunctional.

As Greg Sargent tells us, these two authors are noted for their lack of partisan bias, and they appear to have done their homework for this potential blockbuster of an election-season book.

So... why have Mann and Ornstein not been able to arrange one single solitary appearance on any Sunday political talk show? Aren't the networks required by the terms of their licenses to be "fair and balanced"? What's that you say? I must have my head wedged WHERE to believe that?

MEANWHILE, John Boehner is setting up for another budget-related hostage-taking...