It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own.
This is easily applied to politics (and I happen to think Chesterton intended it that way) if one remembers that being 'a heretic' means simply being wrong. There are thousands of ways to make mistakes, to err, to blunder, even to lose one's mind (which is the result of habitual error more often than we would like to admit).
So back to my point: Obama needs to stop the madness--Congress is careening at the head of a mob, and it needs to be checked. And as the Wall Street Journal notes today, there's something in it for the President too: mobs are notoriously finicky, picking their victims seemingly at random, devouring even their friends.
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