Remember all those confident assertions after 2010 that the Tea Party had run its course? Well, now that Republicans have just booted out longtime moderates such as Dick Lugar in favor of more conservative candidates, suddenly the narrative has changed. Now, Democrats such as John Kerry and Bill Clinton are warning their “colleagues across the aisle” of the dangers of “hyperpartisanship.”

Does this mean that reports of the Tea Party’s death have been greatly exaggerated? I expect the Tea Party will start trying to reach consensus with the free-spending liberals just as soon as Barack Obama offers to compromise just one his leftist principles–which, apparently, is never.

I think the real problem with Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan Chase, in the Democrats’ eyes, is not that the bank committed an act of capitalism (though liberals will use any seeming crisis to increase the reach of government). No, what really bothers them is that the $2 billion loss belies President Obama’s claim that he “reformed the financial system.” For a president who stopped governing a long time ago and who has a very short list of “accomplishments,” that’s an unforgivable sin.

Activists who support the “rights” of homosexuals to marry and to adopt seem to be saying that mothers and fathers are strictly optional. Heather, they imply, will do just as well with “two mommies” as with a mom and a dad. If that’s true, then why don’t we just stop celebrating Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and replace them with a generic Parent’s Day?