Not that you would want to think this way yourself, but if you want to be familiar with the mind of the quintessential Washingtonian, you can't do much better than the National Journal's Ron Fournier. With many years under his belt with the Associated Press, the Inside the Beltway mindset is hardwired into Fournier's brain. So why would you want to read a guy like this? Because sometimes this crowd forgets that they have family secrets, and if you read their words carefully enough you catch them giving away inside knowledge about why our so-called leaders really do the things they do.