According to opensecrets.org, this isn’t the first time Josh Bolten has stepped in when someone in the Bush Administration lost favor.
Josh Bolten was originally slotted to handle much of the president’s domestic policy agenda. However, as the administration soured on Larry Lindsay’s performance as head of the National Economic Council, Bolten gradually took over. He [...]

Just last week, President Bush indicated he was resisting calls from within his party to shake up his senior staff. Today, he has reversed that stand and will announce the resignation of his chief of staff, Andrew Card:
“I’m satisfied with the people I’ve surrounded myself with. We’ve been a remarkably stable administration, and I think [...]

“I made more decisions in half a day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate It’s too slow for me.”
– Sen. George Allen, R-Virginia, who is apparently only running for reelection so he can run for president from the Senate

Raw Story says so:
According to one source close to the case, Rove is providing information on deleted emails, erased hard drives and other types of obstruction by staff and other officials in the Vice President’s office. Pentagon sources close to Rove confirmed this account.
Rove’s lawyer says, “There is no basis whatsoever to the matters you [...]

Post re-natal depression: As the Bush administration continues its inexorable push toward an Ametrican theocracy, it appears that more and more of us — especially we “of an age” — are turning into born again Bible thumpers. At least that’s the finding of Ventura, Calif.-based Barna Group.
A recent survey by Barna found that 75 percent [...]

Saw this at 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera. (Click the graphic above to see a larger version.)
Sen. Napoli, in case you’re just tuning in, is one of the authors of South Dakota’s ban on abortion. In particular, he was a strong advocate of the ban having no exclusions for rape and incest, saying that [...]

We are on the receiving end of an economic diaspora out of Mexico. The only way to stop Mexican citizens from swarming across our borders is to attack the root cause of the calamity. Since the source of the disaster is the Mexican political system, which fails to provide jobs or social services for its [...]

I am not an Al Gore fan. I couldn’t wait to vote against him in the 1988 primaries. I was then, and still am, a Bob Kerrey fan because I like my liberal pols to be tough, smart and aggressive.
I hold Gore responsible for one of the greatest travesties of the modern era: the [...]

“I don’t even know, That is so not like me.”
GOP Rep. Katherine Harris’ bid to take the U.S. Senate seat held by Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson suffered another self-inflicted wound over the weekend:
It is safe to say the Harris campaign is FUBAR (Effed-Up Beyond All Repair). If she has any sense, she’ll put it out [...]

I will never understand why Hillary Clinton brings out the worst in Republicans. The liberal concensus is that she is a rather bland but relatively effective middle-of-the-road politician. (I don’t know anyone personally who thinks she ought to be the next president.)
In any case, her reelection as senator appears to be a shoe-in, if [...]