TAPPED has a helpful digest of the weekend's op-eds for people who have "just recovered from a persistent vegitative state." (Their words, not ours. We were going to spend the entire day pretending that the elephant in the room was really just an exceedingly large coffee table.) Some excerpts:

· David Brooks. Republicans irresponsibly govern irresponsibly, Democrats irresponsibly fail to collaborate in Republican malgovernment.
· Nicholas Kristof. Class warfare!
· Maureen Dowd. I'm definitely satirizing something here.
· George Will. Republicans are getting so crazy, I think they're getting crazy.

And per the scandal du jour this time last week: that's one pink box for the NYT!