On Kings

What he said.

Last night I saw Russ Feingold on television saying that we had to elect a congress with deeper Democratic majorities and a Democratic president so that we could "fix" this and, well, I couldn't believe my ears. Your faith (or was it hope?) that any politician (save yourself a few very select others) -- Democrat or Republican -- wants to "fix" it and your trust (or was that hope, too?) that they will do so is, well, quaint, senator.

Update: And what she (and he) said:

What's most fascinating about [Barack Obama's] efforts to appeal to the American center is the extent to which Obama, as a constitutional law professor and Harvard Law Review president, has repeatedly chosen the Bill of Rights as his vehicle for doing so...

But Obama appears to be compromising on the wrong constitutional issues while backing away from fights on the right ones. A liberal re-examination of
constitutional philosophy need not involve a capitulation to conservative values. Obama can certainly move to the right on gun-control policy or support a limited death penalty if politics demand that he do so. But he should not, in so doing, shift to the right on the Constitution itself.