We got our national divorce. Unfortunately, what is actually means is we spent the summer hanging out at Dad's place shooting guns and riding ATVs and now we're stuck spending the school months with Mom and her "special roommate" who has neck tattoos and a pit bull and everything is gonna suck.

The two truisms of American politics are that the GOP and the right will always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and the DNC and the left will always overreach and fall flat on their faces. So I guess now it's the left's turn at bat.