If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.
A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.
A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.