The problem for McCain is that he himself has depicted lobbyists as being the Devil Incarnate.

Barack Obama has made an original contribution to the debate over gun control.

Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.

It is a wonderful thing when truly stupid ideas return to bite the people that promoted them.

Anyone who sends their children to a religious school may be permitted an 80% tax deduction of the tuition.

Anyone who thinks there is anything Americans cannot or will not do has lost faith in the American people, and is unfit to lead them.

The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.

Once again, lawbreakers get a nice fat Christmas present, while the longsuffering voters get "nothing but hooks and some wire."

Having been put on the scent, the blogosphere discovered that this was only the tip of the iceberg.

By thumbing their nose in the fact of the overwhelming majority of Americans, the Democrats are running a very serious risk.