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During an election campaign, political operatives are fond of seeking to induce in their opponent a negative "defining moment." That is to say a highly publicized moment when their opponent portrays everything that is wrong with him. In 2004, John Kerry provided that moment when he said he voted for the $87 billion before he voted against it. Surely, at the State of the Union address the Democratic Party provided such a moment when, as has already been well commented on by others, they wildly applauded President Bush's statement that Congress failed to pass Social Security reform last year. As...

Remember that so-called “agreement” drafted by the Senate “moderates — the gang of 14 — which brokered a deal in which Republicans would not use the “nuclear option” to break a filibuster in exchange for Democrats agreeing not to filibuster qualified judicial nominees? It appears the Democrats have short-term memory lapse. Despite that fact that Judge Samuel Alito answered more questions than any recent Supreme Court nominee and has a stellar legal background, Democrats such as John Kerry and Ted Kennedy are using the F-Word: filibuster. The big question is how will Senate Republicans respond. As is being reported in...

New York Senator Hillary Clinton ducked questions yesterday about her colleague Dick Durbin's charge that U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay conducted themselves like "Nazis" - but she did offer Durbin some tactical support by calling for a new probe into prisoner abuse by American GIs. "I think that there is a lot of reason to be concerned about what's going on there and the unfortunate image that it portrays to the rest of the world about our country and our values, our legal system," Clinton told NBC's "Today" show. "I would very strongly urge that we appoint an independent commission...

Viagra, Cialis and Levitra may offer aging men at least the illusion of interest and passion. But where is the pill for the politically impotent Democrats? But wait! Didn't the Democrats – with, yes, the help of seven limp Republicans, their cheerleaders in the old media, and George Soros' bags of money – succeed in derailing Majority Leader Bill Frist's "nuclear option" by preserving the filibuster, and also engineer a vote for stem-cell research that the president opposes? So how can anyone call these anti-Bush triumphs impotent? The answer can be found by looking at the net result of the...

In recent weeks, America has learned that President Bush's statement in his State of the Union address that "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" was based on false intelligence. But President Bush has refused to take responsibility for the statement he made. Instead, he has pointed fingers and placed blame in every direction but back at himself. Apparently, Bush can't take responsibility for the words that come out of his own mouth. Just look at the following exchange between a reporter and White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan: Reporter: I'm asking the question, is responsibility for...