With a friend like Harry Reid, you really do not need many enemies:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., defended Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman on Wednesday after the former Democratic vice presidential nominee accepted a speaking slot at next month’s Republican convention in Minnesota.
“He has a close personal relationship with John McCain. I don’t fully understand [...]

From The Wall Street Journal is a summary of what Congress has found important enough to consider this session. (Subscription may be required.)
WASHINGTON — The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn’t passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to [...]

Whatever you do, don’t attempt to do something for the government which might mean a member of Congress won’t get credit or have the ability to funnel money into their home state.
Sadly, members of the DOD are also complicit in this disgraceful behavior.
That is exactly how I felt after reading this:
Retired Glenwood [...]

It’s been a tough couple of days for the Speaker of the House.
Cindy Sheehan has secured the signatures which will qualify her to compete against the Speaker in her upcoming re-election bid.
Now that could be quite interesting to watch. Not that I expect Ms. Sheehan to to a serious threat [...]

Some might call this a political stunt, but I wish it was exactly what we would see more of on a constant basis:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.
Minority Leader John A. Boehner [...]

A very appropriate song

for those who make a lot of noise, but take little action: HT:RCP
Gas is still at $4 a gallon, but the good news is there’s an emerging consensus on a measure that would help: Drill for more oil here at home. President Bush dropped the executive ban on offshore oil and [...]

With a nine percent approval rating at last look, will Congress have the audacity to not agree with the President?
It’s a call to arms people. President Bush is lifting the decades old executive ban on offshore drilling, but it must have congressional support.
I’d like to believe this time will be different and will applaud the [...]

We keep reaching new lows with our Congress, with Rasmussen Reportsfinding just a 9% approval rating for our current Congress.
The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or [...]

Imagine spending your time (all your time) no more than 15 feet apart from your significant other:
Did you hear about that Buddhist couple who’re never more than 15 feet apart? Well, we tried it.
HT: Instapundit
Simon says:
A real shame exports are growing at a rate of about 2.8% a year. It is a [...]

Tuesday evening when I read that the GOP had lost another House seat in a traditionally Republican district in Mississippi, it set me to wondering how in the world the party digs themselves out of the hole they have created.
Karl Rove has a few ideas in this article published in the Wall Street Journal:
Why is [...]

Civic responsibility in the form of Jury Duty calls today so I will not be posting the traditional Tuesday Tid-Bits.
I did however see this interesting video at the NRCC website which defines a series which has recently been completed.
The NRCC recently sat down with several Members of Congress to ask them about the [...]

What has been accomplished in Congress under the leadership of Mr. Reid and Mrs. Pelosi?
Find out all you need to know at Texas Rainmaker.
Progress, sheer backwards progress, (or perhaps an intentional lack thereof in a presidential election year…hmmm.).

Berkeley has not redeemed themselves but then neither has Congress.
From Senator DeMint:
February 13th, 2008 - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement in response to the decision by the City Council of Berkeley, California not to apologize to the Marine Corps and their families and reaffirming their support for [...]

You know how we feel about polls here. They’re just a snapshot of a period in time. Even though Rasmussen has a great record his poll is also just a snapshot in time.
In polls taken recently these are his conclusions:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, if the Congressional Election were [...]

The following is the opening paragraph to an email received from Congressman Eric Cantor yesterday:
One year ago, when they took control of Congress, House Democrats made many promises.  Most of all, Democrats promised you that they were ready to govern - over the past year it has become all too clear that they have let you down.
Included [...]

For most of the population, if you missed important meetings, numerous days of work (without a viable reason) or did not carry out the responsibilities of your job I doubt very much you would be employed for very long.
Not so for members of Congress according to this post at Evangelical Outpost:
Can a Senator or Congressional [...]

How many times will we be subjected to this?
Democrats in Congress failed once again Friday to shift President Bush’s war strategy in Iraq, but insisted that they would not let up. Their explanation for their latest foiled effort seemed to boil down to a simple question: “What else are we supposed to do?”
We’ll hear [...]

Well, it’s Thursday and I have searched the news sites, read through the blogs I frequent and looked through the on-line news magazine articles offered.
Maybe it’s me, but I have found nothing which is not old, rehashed news laced with a new opinion here or there.
Seriously, how many ways can you say we [...]

After 39 votes that didn’t pass to bring the Iraq war to an end by a date certain and one veto that was sustained on the same topic, the House has decided to go for it one more time.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion (euro34 billion) Iraq war bill that would [...]

Although the Democrats claim to have won the last election based on their anti-war stand, the fact remains Republicans were acting like Democrats in the spending arena and their base either stayed home or voted for their opponents, putting the Democrats in charge.
Nevertheless, after 40 votes on stopping the war in Iraq, 39 outright failures [...]

The little man from another planet (He did see a UFO. He might have come out of it.) has decided on his own to bring impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney.
At first the Republicans went against the resolution but then must have had a meeting and decided to vote for the resolution to show [...]

Remember when the new leadership took over the House we were promised a five day workweek from our Congressmen?
Well, things have changed.
Shortly after winning a majority last year, Democrats triumphantly declared that they would put Congress back to work, promising an “end to the two-day workweek.” And indeed, the House has clocked more time in [...]

Well, the founding fathers did intend for the Senate to be the saucer to cool the hot coffee from the House, so it makes sense the Senate is the one barrier to complete dictatorial powers by any one party.
Nancy Pelosi is openly critical of the Senate now.
Frustrated by lack of legislative progress in the Senate, [...]

As a Baptist this article made me chuckle because Baptists joke about committeeing everything to death.
It seems Speaker Pelosi is meeting everything to death.
For the House Republican leadership when it was in the majority, meetings were often a formality. Decisions were made at the top, and after a perfunctory debate, members were informed how they [...]

Ever since the new Democratic Congress was sworn in in January we have seen numerous futile votes to set a date certain for withdrawing from Iraq.
Apparently the Democrats in charge have finally seen the light and decided maybe they had better get to work on a domestic agenda because if they pin their hopes on [...]

Nancy had big words to say the day after last year’s elections, but it seems they were only words and her base is not happy with the leadership of the Democrats in Congress.
From a Sept. 26 editorial in the Boston Globe we read this:
LAST NOVEMBER, Nancy Pelosi proclaimed, “The American people spoke with their votes [...]

Imagine for a moment that this was a Republican Congressperson. There at a minimum would be cries for apologies to this reporter.
While the Congresswoman had no business putting her hands on this woman, I am sure it will be played as no big deal if it is pursued which I doubt it [...]

The President gave an interview to a few journalists Wednesday afternoon. There is a terrific overview of all the topics addressed at NRO.
I wish I would have been there to hear the President comment on Moveon.org’s ad pertaining to General Petraeus.
The president blasted MoveOn for their “Betray Us” ad in the New York Times [...]

Thanks Mr. Thompson for saying what needed to be said. And in short order no less..we don’t see that very often these days in the political arena.

Also, if you missed it, courtesy of Fox News here is Rudy Giuliani on the President’s speech and Hillary Clinton’s remarks to General Petraeus at the [...]

After the Petraeus report it seems the Congressional Democrats’ hope for Republican defections to order a quick withdrawal from Iraq is going to end up in frustration again.
Senate Republicans, bolstered by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus’ war report this week, are closing ranks and say Democrats will continue to fall far shy of the votes [...]