Quote of the Day: The New Norm for Our Government

"Government" has a solid, unchangeable sound to American ears. But we are headed in the direction of Italy, where the idea of government is so operatic and laughably crisis-filled that more than 40 "governments" have fallen since the end of World War II.

--Howard Fineman, N.Y. Times this a. m. (he's bemoaning our new government by crisis)