Andrew Sullivan thinks that all the right-wing hostility towards Barack Obama has made him even more powerful.
Whilst flipping the news dial this evening, I happened upon some footage of an angry mob chanting, "No taxation without representation! No taxation without representation!" I assumed at first it was citizens who live in the District of Columbia and really do have taxation without representation. Turned out, it was people in Nebraska. Apparently, their idea of "no representation" is that their Senators and Congresspersons are voting on the losing side of some bills.