The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Bottom Story of the Day
“David Brooks of the New York Times Thinks He Understands Great Britain. He Doesn’t”–headline, Daily Telegraph website (London), May 24

Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Do Corporate Women’s Groups Matter”–headline, Huffington Post, May 21

Political Refugee
Dennis Kucinich is “examining the idea of running for Congress here in Washington State next year,” the New York Times reports. That’s unusual because Kucinich is already in Congress, as a representative from Ohio:

Given Ohio’s loss of two House seats, his district is likely to disappear when new map lines are drawn.

But Washington is gaining a seat, and Mr. Kucinich figures his aggressive brand of antiwar, pro-working class politics could sell well in a solidly blue state where he has ideological allies and was popular in his White House bids in 2004 and 2008. It is a somewhat novel idea that could be summed up as: Have seniority, will travel.

Imagine leaving a declining city to seek better opportunities in a growing one only to have your congressman follow you.

If Kucinich goes ahead with the campaign, he will have to establish residency in the Evergreen State before Election Day. That means that, unless he resigns the Ohio seat, he will for a time be representing a state where he no longer officially lives. It’s not clear if anyone has made such a move before, though the Times suggests not:

In the early days of Congress, a few House members won election years apart in two different states. But Ed Foreman, now a motivational speaker, was the last to do so, more than 40 years ago; elected as a Republican from Texas in 1962, he lost his re-election bid in 1964, and then won one term in New Mexico in 1968.

Sen. James L. Buckley of New York was defeated for re-election in 1976. He moved to Connecticut, where the Republican Party nominated him for the Senate in 1980. But he lost. Kucinich may, too; Dwight Pelz, chairman of the Washington Democratic Party, “said that while Washington was strongly Democratic, the new district would most likely be centered in the Seattle suburbs and be home to swing voters who might not take to Mr. Kucinich’s liberal politics.”

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