I don’t for a moment want to diminish the glee that my colleague Chuck Lane is feeling over Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin, or the schadenfreude evident in his taunting of such benighted Walker foes as Katrina vanden Heuvel and me. The occasions for such an emotional release are, I can attest, rare in the life of the pundit, and Chuck is entitled to his.




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