Today is the big day: House Republicans will vote on which version of DeLay-ism will be their new majority leader: Roy Blunt (R-MS), John Boehner (R-OH), or John Shadegg (R-AZ).If you haven't yet seen the ads on these characters, click here.M...

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says lobbying reform won't cure what ails Washington, as reported here in the Washington Times. McCain points his finger at a "corrupt" Federal Elections Commission and at the congressional practice of "earmarking"...

"To the Point" with Warren Olney was tons of fun. I went on right after Rep. Dreier. He had just sweet-talked his way through ten minutes of how he was taking his task very seriously, getting input from all sorts of people, including John Mc...

$35,000, apparently.Rep. Richard Pombo, R-CA, has refused repeated calls by Rep. George Miller, D-CA, to investigate Jack Abramoff's dealings with Native American tribes and the lobbying he did on behalf of the Northern Marianas Islands. Pomb...

John B. Judis at The New Republic has a good piece on just how much Roy Blunt learned from Tom DeLay about money and politics:"[Blunt]" owes his rise in the House to the Texas congressman. But he may also one day blame DeLay for his fall, be...

Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2 (both large PDFs) from Sen. McCain's hearings on the Abramoff/Scanlon/Reed/DeLay/Norquist scandals involving $82 billion in bilked fees from six Native American tribes.These are treasure troves. I've gone through the ...