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Karl Rove spoke to Members of Congress last week, and one of the issues that came up was ethics. Bob Novak has some of the story: Karl Rove, President Bush’s political lieutenant, told a closed-door meeting of 2008 Republican House candidates and their aides Tuesday that it was less the war in Iraq than corruption [...]

Patrick Hynes makes a great point this morning with some videos of Jeanne Shaheen from her 2002 debate against now-Senator John Sununu: I think Shaheen will win the Democrat primary if she decides to run. Easily. But I see her numbers coming down quite a bit when the public is made aware of her past [...]

Lots of ink has been spilled over how hard the 2008 environment is going to be for Republicans. This mostly focuses on Bush and Iraq. While most of this is correct, I wonder how overwhelming this will be. Gallup underscores the argument: The percentage of Americans with a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of [...]

Last week, after the seeming pause in the fight over the immigration bill, a number of people wrote that the delay in the immigration bill was either good or bad for John McCain. Now it seems likely that the immigration bill will pass the Senate, as Rep. Tom Cole indicated at the NRCC/Heritage blogger lunch. [...]

At the conservative blogger lunch sponsored by Heritage and Rob Bluey, I asked Rep. Tom Cole, the NRCC Chair, if he had seen GOP candidates for the House backing away from Iraq the way that Senate incumbents have. He said no. Very interesting.

Now, I normally don’t get excited about tax policy. Mostly because it is obscure. But this got me annoyed, so here goes. Senators Baucus and Grassley have introduced a bill to shut down a "loophole" in the tax code as it relates to private equity. The basic idea is that private equity partnerships are taxed [...]

While I am a supporter of immigration in general and some sort of comprehensive immigration proposal, I am not yet decided on this immigration bill. Earlier, I pointed to a place where business is unhappy with the current bill. Today, the NYT reports one place where these problems are becoming clearer. For example, Microsoft’s head [...]

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell had some thoughts on the immigration bill. It is a useful check on the hysteria on the right: “This is a divisive issue” for both parties, said McConnell, a Kentucky Republican. But, he said, “I don’t think there’s a single member of either party next year who is going to [...]

The Washington Prowler has the story and the analysis: Any doubts former Sen. Fred Thompson isn’t getting into the race have probably flown out the window based on the news this morning that Rep. Marsha Blackburn has jumped off the Mitt Romney Bandwagon and endorsed Thompson. Given that Blackburn is friends with Thompson and from [...]

Gallup says Bush is polling higher, but within the margin of error, of Congress. Can the Democrats sustain this level of poor performance in Congress?