GRIDLOCK IS GOOD.

Until the Political Class acquires enough modesty to stop running as if they can Fix Everything, it's up to the voters to stop them.  National Review's Dan McLaughlin makes the obvious, and obviously necessary, point.  "Split-ticket voting is not fraud, and there is nothing unusual about it."

Nor is voting for a candidate other than the Democrat or Republican, despite all the carping about "binary choice" or "wasted vote."  Let Libertarian aspirant to one of Georgia's Senate seats, Shane Hazel, tell it like it is.

"Give me your tears. They are delicious," he said in a phone interview yesterday. "I come from special ops in the Marine Corps and I am thick-skinned. I don't really care what most people think of me as long as I'm standing on principle, that on my death bed I can look my kids in the eye and say, 'I gave it everything.'"

"I can take the slings and arrows. It doesn't bother me." When it comes to Libertarians fighting against the two major parties, "I hope people understand that creating a runoff should be the primary mission until the party is much stronger."

Let the record show that libertarians, whether of the capital-L party version, or of the lowercase-l temperament, are consistent in their objection to the latest technocratic fever dream. "You don't get to lock down our right to travel, to do business, to operate commerce, to gather."