Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.

The Vice-President is supreme boss of the Senate.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.