Ana, here’s what I want to know. Roll Call reports: Sen. Larry Craig (R) opened the possibility of reversing his stated intention to resign from the Senate on Sept. 30 in a voice mail message obtained by Roll Call that the Idaho conservative inadvertently left at a wrong number. So Craig dials a wrong number, [...]

Larry Craig’s is-he-or-isn’t-he resignation supposedly has GOP operatives fuming. It’ll distract from the policy debates they want to have, it reminds voters of their hypocrisy, it confuses poor would be gay-bashers like Tucker Carlson. But… and there’s always a but…here’s my conspiracy of the morning: could the Patreaus report be so bad that Craig’s “backdoor” [...]

Commenter Terrapin asks: Karen – You dedicated a large amount of digital ink to the DNC as they attempted to bring order to the chaotic primary schedule. Here is what the RNC is up to. Funny how the RNC is characterized as ‘laying down the law’ while the DNC gets a bunch of ‘what are [...]

From the upcoming issue of the New York Times Magazine, by way of USA Today’s On Deadline blog, comes this endnote to the now-famous scene in John Ashcroft’s hospital room: “Ashcroft, who looked like he was near death, sort of puffed up his chest,” Goldsmith recalls. “All of a sudden, energy and color came into [...]

Robert Novak, who has had his finger on the pulse of the Republican Party since, roughly, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, declares in his latest column that “never before have I seen morale within the party so low.” Just when it seemed things couldn’t get worse for the GOP, Novak says, along came the Larry Craig embarrassment [...]

probably should not be counting on being named as a senior fellow at the Fantastic Freedom Institute, at least not after this story in today’s New York Times: WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003 of [...]

• Bush, enjoying his own private I-dunno: “If the kind of success we are now seeing continues, it will be possible to maintain the same level of security with fewer American forces.” [WhiteHouse.gov] • Actual soldier’s perspective: “Personally, I think it’s a false representation…But what can I say? I’m just doing my job and don’t [...]

John Edwards picks up the endorsements of the Steelworkers and Mineworkers unions. The Steelworkers are particularly significant. Not only are they the nation’s largest private-sector industrial union, but they also are major players in Iowa Democratic politics.

George Bush rarely opens the window to his inner life. But this morning’s NYT has a front-page story about an interview Bush has given to family friend and fellow Texan Robert Draper, the author of “Dead Certain,” a new book about Bush’s presidency. In it, Bush talks about how he wants to spend his post-White [...]