The bum’s rush out of his Senate seat for Phil Gramm: now that the never-too-sympathetic figure has announced he’s retiring, the ugly upstarts in B—‘s Republican Party want him to resign so they can appoint a Hispanic to the seat, avoid a costly and divisive Republican primary, and advance the fiction that Latino and segregationist voters are happily in bed with each other in Shrub’s America. Joshua Marshall’s Talking Points