If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical equivalent of going nuclear and stupid at the same time.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.