<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Party Out Of&nbsp;Power]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="font-size: 12px;">by Patrick Appel</span></em></p><p>Yglesias <a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/12/ungovernable-america.php">argued</a> a few days ago that the country is ungovernable because the Democratic agenda has been hamstrung by the minority. Ezra Klein has often written a posts <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/how_a_letter_from_1964_shows_w.html">along the same lines</a>. Ed Morrissey, among other bloggers on the right,&#0160;<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/12/has-america-become-ungovernable/">pounced</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Funny, but I don’t recall Yglesias demanding those changes while Democrats were in the minority in the Senate.</p></blockquote><p>Yglesias <a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/12/ungovernable.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+%28Matthew+Yglesias%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader">says</a> he is being misread:]]></html></oembed>