The president may have to do with the State of the Union address something that rarely gets done with State of the Union addresses - and that is to be inspirational. |
The prospects look very grim for Republicans. |
There is an unspoken but enormously wide gap between the views of Democrats in Washington and Democrats in the country on Iraq. |
There simply is no party position on Iraq ... It's every man and woman for themselves. |
There's a strange minuet going on. In some ways, even the activists feel they could do a lot worse than Roberts, but they can't say it. They have to put up some kind of fight. |
This is developing into an institutional struggle, |
What Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are going to agree on is `we need more information.' I don't believe she is confirmable without information about her work while she was counsel to the president. |
While the subject matter doesn't have an impact on the daily concerns of people in Ewing Township, chairmanships give you bargaining power with members of other committees. There is a prestige factor involved. You become a part of a select group of House leaders. |
You can have a scintillating personality, a great resume; unless you're sitting on a very healthy treasury, they are going to look elsewhere. It is of critical importance. You can never do it too early. It marks you as a competitor. |