Get it? Because her name is Blanche. Washington Post columnist and Power Grid #3 Dana Milbank delivers an impassioned Sunday column today, using a literary allusion and extended metaphor to describe the dealmaking that occurred yesterday in the Senate. It's all very Southern -- straight out of a Tennessee Williams play, he contends in "Sweeteners for the South." And it may sound like your typical gimmicky op-ed fare, but it works this time. I mean, her name is Blanche. (more...)