Newsweek also proclaims this week that “Bipartisanship Is Bad,” an interesting sentiment after eight years of bashing George W. Bush and his evil henchman Karl Rove because of their unwillingness to compromise with Democratic critics. Bush rarely solicited advice from those around him, it was said. No, wait a minute. That was someone else.

If Andrew Romano can really claim with a straight face that “since the early 1970s, Democrats have drifted only slightly leftward,” I’d invite him to North Carolina for field research into the priorities of this state’s Democratic establishment then and now.