To hear a lot of folks talk about it, the short, unhappy life of a bar called Political Pattie’s stands as an indictment of Washington, proof that it’s full of intolerant blue snowflakes who can’t ...

Michael Schaffer is a senior editor and columnist at POLITICO Magazine. He has covered national and local politics for over 20 years and spent seven years as editor-in-chief of the Washingtonian.