While we were all gabbing about Obama and Wright, just the other day, unsurprisingly but in an uncharacteristic hurry, the Supremes resoundingly sided with the Republican campaign to suppress the vote in the Indiana case. Today, Adam Cohen of the NYT editorial board rightly notes that the Constitution, Article I, Section 4, grants Congress the right to set baseline election standards. (To wit: "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of Chusing Senators.")

Congress, where are you? This means you, Speaker Pelosi, and you, Majority Leader Reid. Among others. Where are you?

Until I saw the actual video of Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club, just now, I was of the opinion that Obama should reply simply by taking the offensive, calling out John McCain for seeking out the endorsement of the wack-job Rev. John Hagee.

Wright on video, preening, smirking, reveling in his star turn, has spun my mind around. I found him convincing in this sense: He's convinced me that he's a clear and present danger to Obama's candidacy. The father has turned on the son--it's the Laius complex in action. Sure, sure, Wright offers a heap of clever and not-so-clever self-extenuations for his kind words about Louis Farrakhan, and absurdly claims to speak for the entire black church. But he makes it clear that he believes Obama is simply "a politician," meaning a shifty no-good. He's broken the parental contract.

Obama has to overthrow his surrogate father.

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