"The Republicans, to be sure, are still plenty full of crazy. The ideological zeal remains almost fully intact, but the political zeal – the sheer bloody-minded insistence that steadfastness would invariably bring triumph – is always the first to flag."
— In another interesting example at the Obama administration’s penchant for long-term strategy objectives, it seems as if Republicans would be best served by sitting on their hands and giving Obama nothing to define himself against, keeping him from playing the lesser of two evils card for the rest of the year.
