Over the last 48 hours, most of the water cooler talk in our office has been about Joe Wilson’s outburst during President Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress. 

My colleague, Jeff Shesol, helped put my rage at Wilson’s rage in perspective in this recent post to Politico’s Arena.  He came across a letter in which the syndicated columnist Ray Clapper wrote to Governor Alf Landon in 1937, “…the Republican Party is so utterly bankrupt that it is unable to present any intelligent and constructive opposition.  All of the damage it is doing…is purely that which it can do by stirring up ignorance and prejudice and blind fears.”

Pretty prescient, I’d say.   See Jeff’s entire post here.