Via Digby, Bloomberg, some Village Broderites, and a bunch of 80s retreads are calling for a "government of national unity." Can we get a grip, please? On something besides all the levers of power? Google it. Governments of national unity are for countries that have undergone huge trauma, like apartheid in South Africa or decades of civil war in the Sudan. You don't proclaim a government of national unity because there might be a change in government from one party to another, or because the cocktail wienies and jumbo shrimp won't always be there to glom onto, or because somebody's winger operative girlfriend is going to be forced to enter the dreaded private sector, or because a DFH or two is going to become a deputy assistant undersecretary of this, that, or the other. And you especially don't proclaim one because Washington, DC is your place. Eh?

Because that would be just too, too transparently a totally Villageous and deeply bogus cynical maneuver. Read more…