"The Democrats have their best political cycle in 12 years, and conclude that the way to start off is electing a Speaker and Majority Leader who don't just hate each other, they won't even return phone calls.

The Republicans have their worst political cycle in 12 years, and conclude that everything's fine, there's no problem, and they should just stay the course. [ One more time just for emphasis ;) As I've said before to be an equal opportunity offender: We have the witless versus the perfidious mediated by the cynical narcissists. And it's 1938 again. If not later. -ed. ] "