Galen: Self Destructing

Rich Galen

From Townhall.com - Nancy Pelosi's Democrat caucus in the House, while officially still in charge of the 111th Congress, have become the ugly kids in the back of the late bus as power brokers in Washington. They adopted a caucus resolution opposing the deal that President Obama made with the Congressional Republicans on taxes and unemployment benefits. No. One. Cared. There are about 80 lame duck Members of Congress who are working out of a cube - a CUBE - in a cafeteria in the House Office Building because they were kicked out of their offices the week after Thanksgiving by the Clerk of the House so their offices could be repainted and made ready for their successors. 

American Voter

Two months ago they were Princes and Princesses, with young staffers bringing them coffee and opening doors which had the temerity of having been placed in their path. This week they are working out of a cube and ANWERING THEIR OWN PHONES. "Oh," as Col. Kurtz so aptly put it in Apocalypse Now, "the horror." On the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, President Obama is trying to find a center of gravity. Read full column here:

Galen: Self Destructing