I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.