I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.
When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.
The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here, there were flat-out lies, and they sort of knew it. They were desperately trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and 911.