Loyalty, Not Service
Sen. John E. Sununu of New Hampshire, alone so far among Republicans, is of course absolutely right that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ought to resign over his role in allowing the Justice Department to become a pawn in the Bush administration’s purge of federal prosecutors.
This is an administration where Donald Rumsfeld held on […]

A bill in the House sounds the opening bell for real reform.
For immigration hawks, there is plenty to like: Before the bill’s citizenship provisions kick in, stringent new standards on workplace enforcement and border security would have to be satisfied. They include a major build-up in personnel and technology monitoring the nation’s border. In addition, […]

The Multipolar Presidency
Increasingly, the president seems pushed and pulled in contradictory directions, not so much by the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill but by his own Cabinet members and other appointees. The president comes out every once in a while to make a show of steely resolve, as he did last week in support of […]

In 2000, after the Supreme Court anointed Junior President I commented that it was a public castration of the Democratic Party and its leadership. It has been a long, costly and humiliating 6 years for the Democratic Party and our country, but it seems that the people’s party has finally grown some. Like all bullies, when you stand […]