E.J. Dionne has a column about what nonsense the Teapublicans will bring to the House of Representative’s in the 112th Congress. The column is interesting to read, but it’s this quote from historian Gordon Wood that gives one pause:
. . . we “can recognize the extraordinary character of the Founding Fathers while also knowing that those 18th-century political leaders were not outside history. . . . They were as enmeshed in historical circumstances as we are, they had no special divine insight into politics, and their thinking was certainly not free of passion, ignorance, and foolishness.”