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The deal would require no Republican support, demolish the Hastert Rule, revive bipartisan solutions, marginalize the Tea Party, and put Boehner back in the business of legislating.

Thirty-one years ago today, our national consciousness took a significant turn that has tangible consequences today. It was on this day that the Too Much Information Age began.

We knew the Tea Partiers were extremists and ideologues, but we learned something new when drool stains pooled beneath some of them as calamity loomed.