Why Are Senators Afraid?
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Sen. Peter Knudson showed the willpower to pass the ethics reform bill that Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. wanted. So tell me, why are Sens.
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A growing number of lawmakers in Congress are voluntarily giving up one of the biggest perks of office Â at the risk of alienating their constituents.
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Do you feel safer than you did five years ago? Republicans hope the answer is yes and that you'll give them full credit.    Of course, on a related note, they also hope you've developed full-fledged amnesia.    They hope you've forgotten all about immigration reform and how the White House and GOP-controlled Congress were going to fix a broken system and seal a porous border -- things that make many Americans feel less safe and less secure.
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"When we Americans first began, our biggest danger was clearly in view: we knew from the bitter experience with King George III that the most serious threat to democracy is usually the accumulation of too much power in the hands of an Executive, whether he be a King or a president. Our ingrained American distrust of concentrated power has very little to do with the character or persona of the individual who wields that power. It is the power itself that must be constrained, checked, dispersed and carefully balanced, in order to ensure the survival of freedom. In addition, our founders taught us that public fear is the most dangerous enemy of democracy because under the right circumstances it ...
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When Duncan Hunter first came to Congress a quarter century ago, there were those who said he&#39;d rather walk through a wall than open a door.
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WASHINGTON - Playing on the fear factor, Vice President Dick Cheney suggested in a campaign speech there might be another terrorist attack on the United States if John Kerry were in the White House. President Bush's opponents' are raising their own worst fears, including the potential for more wars during a second Bush term...
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In a year the Democrats should win the White House in a walk, we've got a perfect storm that could put a Republican there. With the Republican nominee all but decided, the Democrats are split down the middle across racial, gender and age lines. So we have three parties, not two, and the Republicans are spouting the same old fear about war and security while they advocate raping the Constitution and spending us into oblivion. Four more years of spitting and swearing while our economy goes from second rate to third world. How will this get resolved? Oy?
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A US senator suffers a possible stroke, raising the possibility that control of the Senate could return to the Republicans.
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What is it going to take for Congress to stop this war? If there's any "cutting and/or running" going on, it's among this country's elected representatives.  I know my senators and Congressman are doing their best, but they've got to reach the minds and hearts of Republicans.
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The six senators seeking the White House can talk the talk. Voting the vote is not so easy.
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One GOP candidate seems to be generating more than the usual personal antipathy from his rivals and their staffs. Why?
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - State Sen. Don Carlson is an oddity in his party, a Republican in a largely Democratic district. The unusual status makes some Republicans nervous.
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The Republicans&#39; nightmare was that Vice President Dick Cheney would come across as a nasty and brooding villain. The Democrats&#39; nightmare was that Sen. John Edwards would be a syrupy but unlikable courtroom performer.
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Analysis: The election of the once disgraced politician as the number two Senate Republican may mean that the G.O.P. has no intention of getting along too well with the new party in power
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In the convoluted political atmosphere of the Capitol, where lawmakers worry about re-election, it may not be so easy for the Republicans to steamroller the Democrats.
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Seeking opportunity in a market clouded by fear.
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For senators with presidential aspirations, 2007 looms like a potential minefield.