The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.