JIM LEACH IS MAKING SENSE. Turns out the moderate Iowa Republican has a bunch of stuff to say that, as Heather Hurlburt observes, “many Democrats, and nearly all Republicans, are either afraid to say or not thinking hard enough about.” The thing about Leach, though, is that I’ve heard him say a number of smart things over the past several years, but have never really seen him do anything about them.

–Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias is a senior editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a former Prospect staff writer, and the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats. Follow @mattyglesias