Larry Craig has gone, forced out by a frantic Republican leadership. None will cheer more loudly than the survivors of those endangered and depleted species this serf of the mining and timber companies spent much of his career depleting with one legislative barrage after another. Better that he would have been gored or stomped, than... Read More

Maybe for a moment George Bush thought Bill Frist was calling late Wednesday evening to tell him he was quitting as Senate majority leader on account of his own deepening legal problems, stemming from insider stock deals. But no, Frist was phoning about problems not his own. He told Bush that the conservative Republican mutiny... Read More