What Kind of Year Has It Been?

Let's just say it has not been this kind of year.

(Apologies to Aaron Sorkin.)

Partisanship Is the Problem

Washington, warning against parties in his Farewell Address.

I'm a partisan, and it's an election year so I'm mentally inclined to be uber-partisan this year - but I can still see that partisanship over patriotism is the one of the biggest problems with America today.

Congress Isn't Working: The Productivity Problem

By the numbers, this Congress, the lucky 113th Congress is "the least productive Congress in history."