MICKEY KAUS: BLOW THREE TO ORSZAGISM: “David Broder–who as Lucianne notes will surely be one of the first the Juiceboxers send to the ice floe–notices that what Orszag’s base-closing style Medicare cost-cutting panel is designed to get around is … the ordinary practice of representative democracy.”

Stupid representative democracy. Too messy. We need some sort of principle based on having one clear leader — call it, oh, I dunno, the “leader principle” — to make sure things get done.