My Advice to the New Speaker of the House: Divest the Curse

Will the next Speaker become just another picture on the wall of the House Chamber, forever consigned to the purgatory of watching future generations of politicians repeat the same mistakes?

In my last commentary, I described Freedom Month in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. It's not altogether unlike the falling of the Berlin Wall. A heavy, authoritarian weight has left the building, and it's safe to talk openly now about the many problems of the past eight years without fear of career-ending retaliation from the Imperial Speakership…