"...leadership that has nothing to hope for but fear itself"

As I rode through the middle of our nation's capital yesterday, I was struck by the bad vibes. A toxicity has settled over the Capitol Mall in the few short but interminable-seeming years of our pissant "president" and his money party, who at least now seem to realize that the only card they have to play is fear-mongering (see Paul Krugman's op-ed piece in today's New York Times, available only through subscription to Times Select).