If some folks out there are going to compare Pelosi’s incompetent tactics to my previous leadership in the House, let’s get a few facts straight:

1.    If I were a rank and file member, I would have voted against it.
2.    If I were in leadership, that would not have been the bill.
3.    And we would have won.

UPDATE: Thanks, Rich!

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

As someone who has been attacked by a rabidly liberal partisan prosecutor and who is quite aware of what prosecutors are able to get away with, I can tell you that criminalizing politics is exactly what the Obama camp intends to do.  I wrote about this ridiculous phenomenon from a first hand account in my book:
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Finally, someone is making some sense when it comes to the bailout.  The problem is, will House Democrats lend an ear to what conservatives are saying, or simply do what they do best - spend, and waste, taxpayer dollars? 
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Today is Constitution Day.  Celebrate...by actually reading it.
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Houston Chronicle: DeLay works to regain the limelight

Politico: DeLay to media: "Keep it up"

Dallas Morning News: Tom DeLay drops hammer

Politico: DeLay says Dems better organized

New York Times: DeLay Offers Advice to Palin: Be Yourself

ABC News: DeLay: Unlike Obama, Palin Sees Baby as 'Blessing,' Not 'Punishment'


 

Think the Democrats are the party of honest, open, ethical government? Wrong. I’ve worked with these guys (actually, against them) for longer than I care to admit, and let me tell you: nothing has changed but their talking points. The Republican Leader office has compiled a great resource, titled “The Swamp List” highlighting their dirty tricks, and they’re actually in print. But it’s not enough to simply call them out on their hypocrisy and wrong doing – we need to take a page from their playbook and make sure their leadership is weeding out these members. Call on Nancy Pelosi to fire Charlie Rangel!

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Breaking the Congressional Deadlock
 
(This is an op-ed that ran in the Washington Times on Sunday, up against my friend Steny Hoyer's opinion piece.)

In coming weeks, President Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama and the Democrats running Congress will all try to blame the other guys for the deadlock in Congress. "We just can't get anything done," they will lament, as only political candidates can. The ideal scenario expressed in the speeches of all of the above will be a gauzy time in the middle distance when we can finally set aside our petty differences, come together and solve our problems in a bipartisan manner. The enemy of this rhetorical era of good feeling is said to be partisanship.
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