It's the opposite of what Frank Sinatra sang. If you can make it there, you can't necessarily make it anywhere in the Republican Party. |
It's very problematic because of the House. The perks are too enticing for them to convert to the religion of reform. |
Just by waiting for the Republicans to self-destruct, the Democrats could lose their chance at rebuilding a majority. Politics works in strange ways. |
Just on grounds of being evasive, he will probably get a core of Democrats who will vote against him. But his nomination is not imperiled by any means. |
President Bush has a major, major headache on prescription drugs that no prescription will probably address. This is a sleeper issue in the 2006 elections among senior citizens. |
Thanks to Gingrich, 1994 was that rare moment when the opposition party actually had developed alternative ideas about how to govern. |
The administration knows how to respond to political pressure with the flexibility of an Olympic gymnast. You've seen it on a number of things - No Child Left Behind, prescription drugs, homeland security. |
The administration lost the high ground on a critical issue that spoke to America's moral standards in the war on terror. It is inevitable that the administration is going to capitulate on this issue. It is only a matter of time. |
The conservative base of the party is now to the point of open rebellion (with Bush) and the demonstrations accelerate the trend. |
The entire fiscal landscape has been transformed in the last week, ... The entire Republican agenda of tax cuts, Social Security reform and big spending on pet Republican projects is over. Events do eventually have an impact on Capitol Hill. |
The groups want certain questions asked of Roberts to lay a predicate for future nominees. Unless there's a revelation we can't fathom, this will be the meat of the hearings. |
The paradox is that the Republicans could reform their party before the Democrats do. |
There is a dilemma within the Democratic Party: The base is overwhelmingly against the war, but leadership realizes it would be very dangerous for the party to be viewed as committed to anything but success in Iraq. |
There were about a dozen of us wanting to stop this or that Clinton plan. When the Mariana Islands came up, I wondered how did this become a conservative issue? |
They looked into the abyss and saw this whole thing falling apart and realized they needed to get something done over a serious issue. It was a rare moment of government at its best, and it's not clear how long it will last. |