— Though one gets the sense that the “objective” AP isn’t really buying it: Fred Thompson, a likely Republican presidential candidate, on Tuesday defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling The Associated Press that lobbying is an important part of life because “government’s got their hands in everything.” The actor and former U.S. senator from Tennessee added, “Nobody yet has pointed out any of my clients that didn’t deserve

When someone says to me, “Chew on that for a bit,” the first thing that comes to mind is a delicious stick            of                       Spearmint                                   Wrigley’s.

64-35. Tom Tancredo — watching the proceedings from behind razor-wire twisted around his TV on the off chance a Jennifer Lopez movie slips through his hate filter — just threw up a little bit in his mouth. Ironically, it tasted a teensy bit like refried beans. Here’s Stanley Kurtz, speaking, in the runup to the vote, on behalf of those redneck bigots who oppose this “reform” bill simply because they

From ABC News’ Political Radar: ABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Republican Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee, made a stunning speech on the Senate floor this evening after most people had gone home. Watch the video HERE. He said the president and Congress must start planning to redeploy American troops from Iraq now. Waiting for September 2007, when Army General David Petraeus is set

— His proof being that they attack him! Which couldn’t be because they believe his positions are opportunistic, divisive, or plain idiotic, you understand — such a concession, after all, would require that Trippi conceive of Edwards’ critics as sentient beings instead of beer guzzling, gun-toting trailer trash who hate the gays and wish to control The Vagina. Instead, Edwards’ detractors, per Trippi, attack him because they fear him. It