The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

When Hillary's getting knocked around by the folks on the Hill is Bill going to go Larry King to knock her enemies around? Will he be going off to foreign countries on his own little diplomatic missions? I had assumed he'd remain a step in the background as he has through through most of this decade. But that doesn't seem to be the case. If the constitution allowed it, I'd happily have Clinton back. I'd happily have Hillary in his place. But I don't want them both.

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.