In his combative response to President Obama's speech
last night, House Speaker John Boehner offered an uncommonly crystalized
rendition of an all too common bit of GOP nonsense.
The debt-ceiling fight is about politics, not policy. But
count on the news media to conflate the two—in service of the trope that everyone just needs to meet in the middle of wherever they
are right now.
Last month I posted about Rais Bhuiyan, the Muslim hate crime victim who is advocating that his attacker, who shot Bhuiyan as part of a post-9/11 shoo...