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 [...]

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 [...]

My original blog was Oh, How I Love Jesus and I had one other writer with me for the first part.
Then people began to visit the site and we started discussing politics as well as faith issues. I invited two of them to blog with me.
After awhile, it became apparent we were discussing politics [...]

The National Republican Congressional Committee is putting together some videos with spokesmen from the party leadership to discuss issues and bring them directly to the public.
Here is the first of their videos.

If you like this please go over to their site to view more in the series as they become available or to view other [...]

This is whats happening in the real world of scandal. People don’t care about who got a million here or there. They care about things that they can understand in one second of their busy lives. I think that we are going to need more than campaign finance scandal this time around to beat the [...]

If this is true and I don’t know if it is, someone should at least go to jail for breaking the law,Hatch act.
WASHINGTON - Top Commerce and Treasury department officials appeared with Republican candidates and doled out millions in federal money in battleground congressional districts and states after receiving White House political briefings detailing [...]

Max Deveson of the BBC’s Analysis and Research unit explains what happened to the men and women who came to power with President Bush in January 2001.
The appointment of the staunchly religious, anti-abortion John Ashcroft as attorney general, in charge of the Department of Justice, was an early sign that the Bush White House [...]

Can it get any more pathetic?
This weekend, Americans will see images of voters emerging from polling booths proudly displaying their purple-stained thumbs as a mark of pride after their democratic effort.
The images will not be beamed from Baghdad, though, but from Ames, Iowa, where Republicans will gather for an annual straw poll. This year’s [...]

Speaks for itself.
A majority of the American public has turned sour on President Bush’s policy in Iraq — but you wouldn’t know it from listening to top Republican recruits for congressional races next year.
Virtually all of the party’s blue-chip challengers continue to back Bush’s surge policy and oppose any timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops.
Their [...]

Tell me this isn’t crazy. Sounds like they’re doing the American peoples work. Yeah Right!
Well, I guess you could say they learned from the best.
House Democratic leaders are intent on sidetracking bipartisan attempts to change course in Iraq at least until fall, officials said Tuesday, rather than allow nervous Republicans to vote [...]

This is a good read, enjoy.
Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) isn’t giving an inch on revealing his plans.
No matter that he hasn’t raised much money for a 2008 reelection bid (fueling speculation that he will not run for a sixth term). Or that this influential legislator on defense matters is challenging the White House’s policy on [...]

There’s an interesting back and forth between Bill Moyers and Victor Gold, Goldwater’s deputy press secretary back in the ‘64 campaign, and later fixture in the GOP hierarchy.
Thinking about past conversations here about what it means to be a conservative or a liberal, I think this conversation further muddies the meaning of those two labels.

We all use the terms liberal and conservative, left and right, or blue or red, pretty indiscriminately. It’s understandable since these are convenient tags, and everyone else uses them. But like I’ve said elsewhere, I think this spectrum is too simplistic.
If you open the Word document below you’ll see some charts that measure [...]

Boy, was I wrong. I commented in another posting (Red-Staters Are Breeding Like…Drunken Ferrets?) that Catholics tended to vote for Democrats, but according to a Pew Survey, that wasn’t quite the case in the 02, 04, and 06 elections. As you can see below, white Catholics, especially those who attend mass regularly, are [...]

Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel has always been considered to be a liberal Republican, who has even discussed impeachment of President Bush.
I could never understand how a liberal Republican would win a Senate seat when he’s from a very conservative state.
There are even rumors he might join Mayor Michael Bloomburg of NYC in a third party [...]

With the self-proclaimed base of the Republican party going bananas over illegal immigration and promising to not vote for someone who is not 100% as far right as they are on every issue, we now have the same thing happening to the self-proclaimed base of the Democratic party.
The bitter battle between the Democratic Congress [...]

I’ve been thinking lately about the far right wing of the Republican party and of the far left wing of the Democratic party.
To be honest with you I wouldn’t want to belong to either wing.
Let’s start with the far left wing of the Democratic party, which is the one I am least familiar with from [...]

I guess I always knew in the back of my mind it would happen. Right-leaning sites love to call those on the left the cut and run crowd.
Now the right has its own cut and run people. Oh, they describe themselves as moderates, but no one will pay attention to that. All [...]

It seems Arizona Senator Jon Kyl and not Senator John McCain is the White House go-to man for immigration legislation.
Last year the Senate passed a pretty liberal immigration bill that allows a path to citizenship for just about anyone who wants it. If not for the Republican House last year this bill would have [...]

DJ Drummond has a great post up Stolen Thunder. It is also cross-posted at Wizbang Politics.
I am thoroughly disgusted with the rash of upstarts claiming they have a right to vilify and smear the sitting President of the United States, merely because Dubya has declined to obey their whims and (often ill-considered) [...]

This Washington Post article describes what the emboldened Democrats intend to do to harrass President Bush after the Easter recess (in addition to what they have already done.)
Here are some quotes:
Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues — [...]