Now even reformers needed political machines.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.