Peggy Noonan

"We wll need grace to get through this time. People often speak of an absence of civility in Washington, but that's not quite the problem. Faking civility is a primary operating style:"My esteemed collegue ". What is needed is grace - sensitivity, mercy, generosity of spirit, a courtesy so deep it amounts to beauty. We will have to summon it. And the dreadful thing is you can't really fake it."