College Republicans?
Andrew Sullivan posts a letter from a reader with some disobliging things to say about the GOP in light of Rep. Wilson's antics last night.
Huffington Post sounds the same chime.
Conservatives and Republicans have retorted that Democrats have done as bad or worse in the past, including booing at passages in President Bush's 2005 State of the Union address.
But this kind of back and forth is unproductive. Suppose some Republican members did act supremely badly yesterday. Saddling the nation with trillions of dollars of new debt seems a roundabout way to punish them for it.
Too much writing about politics takes the form of movie reviews. The script failed, the part was poorly played, I didn't like the show. But it's not a show. Perhaps some of the Republican opposition has been hysterical or buffoonish or in some cases manipulative and deceptive. But it is the president's plan and this party's bills that will or will not become law, and their failings are not diminished one whit by the deficiencies of their opponents.