J'accuse!

Columnist E.J. Dionne wonders how it has come to this. Republicans (and their pundit enablers) are now attacking President Obama "not for the decisions he’s made but for the ones he hasn’t, and the ones he delayed. They are attacking him not as a liberal ideologue but as a man in full flight from any ideological definition." In other words, they accuse the president of committing the heinous crime of practicing pragmatism. The horror. It is unlikely that history will even bother to footnote this latest episode of conservative dopiness. But for today at least, the Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.