Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.

The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.