We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.