Something fast to say...

Much more deliberate thinking about the Republicans and their obstructiveness and despair-mongering has brought me to this thought:

It's not enough to have an opinion. You need to have an idea.

And so I'm now busily exploring my own mind, turning up rocks, looking under logs, pushing aside fronds, staring up into branches, to see how often I have only an opinion, not an idea.

This is the same, I suppose, as saying 'Everyone's a critic', except that's not an idea. It's just an opinion.