"It seems that we are hosting an anger management class," Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas told his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee yesterday morning.
Blog: Rough Sketch
Post columnist Dana Milbank serves as the capital's foremost critic of political theater. Go to his Rough Sketch blog for Web-only Sketches, videos, and more.
Who will rule Potomac Man? An excerpt from Dana Milbank's book: For the inhabitants of Potomac Land, backing the winning candidate in the election is a matter of tribal survival: The victor will determine who brings in the goods over the next four years ... and who gets scalped.
Washington Sketch
A national political reporter for the Post, Milbank writes Washington Sketch, an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress and elsewhere in the capital. He covered the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns and President Bush's first term. Before coming to the Post as a Style political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for the New Republic and Congress for the Wall Street Journal.