Yesterday, I did some commenting on President Obama’s recent comments before his New York money people: “You know, the other side, they just kinda sometimes do what they’re told. Democrats, y’all thinkin’ for yourselves.” The thinking-for-themselves Democrats, of course, applauded: applauded Obama and applauded, mainly, themselves. (For my relevant Corner posts, go here and here.)

I thought you might like to see a couple of interesting facts, contributed by Jack Pitney, the well-known Claremont McKenna political scientist. “Another thing about the Obama insult,” he writes, “is that the opposite is closer to the truth. In 2008, according to Congressional Quarterly, House Democrats voted on average with the majority of their caucus 92 percent of the time. The score for House Republicans was five points lower. Senate Democrats voted as a unified caucus 87 percent of the time, four points higher than the GOP score.”

Maybe not earthshaking, but interesting, as I said, and highly relevant.