Quote of the Day

"The vice president needs to step up to his constitutional duty as presiding officer of the Senate and begin overturning those age-old parliamentary precedents that now allow partisan obstructionists to eviscerate all semblance of majority rule. Until that's done, Republicans will have no incentive to agree to any real compromises, Democrats will continue trying to pass legislation without them, and everyone will come out a loser."—Steven Pearlstein, in the Washington Post, commenting on "The myth of Washington bipartisanship and the art of true compromise."