In the long-awaited matter of the Wisconsin recall elections, two Republican state senators were indeed recalled. That puts the state at 17 Republicans and 16 Democrats, and, even with forthcoming recall elections, at the very least the legislature will remain with a Republican majority.

Along the way, how Wisconsin politics works has been laid bare. Last week, a supporter of Republican Senator Robert Cowles came out to say that Cowles had told him that the only reason he voted for Scott Walker's anti-union budget bill was that "the governor's office told us if we didn't give them our support, they would run a tea party candidate against [...]

One week ago today, Congress embraced a demonstration of cross-party goodwill and did the unthinkable—just by sitting together during the President's State of the Union address. The plan, championed early by Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), turned the event into a "prom," in that everyone made a bigger deal of it than necessary, a bunch of cool kids called it "lame" (and went anyway) and the headliner for the night just did bad covers.

Participants threw themselves into the one night fantasy with abandon, refusing to face the fact that their date probably just wanted to use them. Congress is, indeed, just another word for sex.

In the end, [...]