“American congressional democracy is broken … We had sustainable finances in the bag. Then the new George W. Bush administration put a rock in the bag and threw it into the Marianas Trench.”

Link. “Fixing our politics will require large numbers of our citizenry to give up deeply-held self-delusions … More in future weeks.”

Lotterman is basically an “Arne Carlson*” old time MN conservative — an extinct species that we sorely need to resurrect. I’m very curious what he’s going to advise.

(The modern MN GOP hates Carlson with supernova intensity.)