What we have here is an example of how to have a good thing to say, and then kill it by playing it to death

In The Huffington Post, a man named Drew Westen has a piece called

Change vs. Bipartisanship: What Happens When You Throw a Bipartisan Party and Half the Guest List Stays Home?

And as that sounds, it's another piece expressing the frustration of Democrats who don't understand why Barack Obama insists on refraining from opening fire on Republicans.

You know, the Republicans. The ones who got us into this mess. And have shown by their words and deeds that they have no intention of helping us get out.

Westen writes:

The problem with a message of bipartisanship is that it makes it very difficult to tell the story of why things are so bad that we need dramatic change.

These are good things to say, and Westen has more of them. Unfortunately they get completely lost in his almost 35, 000 word mess of an essay. Ironically, at one point he chides The White House for

[sending] out surrogates like Larry Summers, who understands economics but not how to talk to the public about economics, against well-coached, media-savvy Republicans like House Minority Leader John Boehner, who demolished Summers on Meet the Press with well-crafted lines mixed with economic nonsense.

You're not a man who should be chiding anybody on not being able to talk to the public, Drew.

But I'll tell you when I bailed out. It was when he said this:

I would not presume to put words into the mouth of a man who can use the English language as well as anyone alive [Obama], but something like the following might have been appropriate...

And I would not presume to tell a Psychologist; neuroscientist; Emory University Professor and published author he should keep his damn hands off the keyboard, but...