UPDATE: More:

Sitting here in DC right now (Tuesday afternoon). It’s a ghost town. Little traffic….still downtown streets with no serious attempt at clearing snow. And, of course, the government shut down…the one bright spot.

A private utility that did not take steps to deal with a situation like this would be broken on the regulatory wheel. Politicians, not so much.

Indeed.

Meanwhile, I’m surprised that this item on The Atlantic’s Political Wire refers to me as a “die hard critic” of Andrew’s. I don’t think I pay enough attention to him to merit that designation.

UPDATE: Could be worse. Could be Oxford.

Don’t miss my PJTV show on this, either.

Robert Gibbs showed the words “hope” and “change” on his hand as he started his daily briefing with reporters on Tuesday.

Many in the room, where President Barack Obama had spoken just moments before about the need for bipartisanship, groaned at the political shot.

Leaving aside its lameness — stepping on the President’s message, and demonstrating, once again, that Robert Gibbs is never intentionally funny — it really seems to me that bringing up the whole “hope and change” schtick nowadays isn’t doing much for the White House, but rather is simply reminding people of how the original promise of this Administration has failed to bear fruit.

UPDATE: “Tell me again who the childish ones are, here?”

UPDATE: More from Megan McArdle.

UPDATE: On consideration, I don’t think this gets it quite right. Andrew certainly has a lot of hate, but unlike Buchanan he seems less . . . fixed in exactly who he hates at any given moment. I think it’s more of a frog-and-scorpion kind of thing and not a traditional idee fixee hatred like anti-semitism.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Dan Riehl: Sullivan is actually not an antisemite.

UPDATE: Related: Why Sovereign Debt Pain Has Only Just Started.