BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from weeklystandard.com
Partisan polarization seems like it purchased a lifetime pass in this city.
This won’t sit well with Kumbaya aficionados — those looking for congressional Republicans and Democrats to walk arm-in-arm toward a bipartisan Promised Land.

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
 The flash from the explosion–and implosion–of General Stanley McChrystal has faded and his story is already old news.  Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson and Rod Blagojevich are back in the headlines. 
 That’s too bad.   If there is any good to come of the McChrystal tragedy, if we as a society are to learn from [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
From the Feehery Theory
No wonder David Obey retired.
Last night, Alan Mollohan, the West Virginia Congressman and proud member of the House Appropriations Committee, lost his primary against an opponent who attacked the incumbent’s behavior on the Committee.
Over the weekend, Robert Bennett, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, lost in his efforts to [...]

BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from the Weekly Standard
Congress has a black eye, and it’s starting to swell. As an institution, its approval ratings bounce near all time lows, creating a crisis in confidence among voters.  Can Americans count on an institution so anemic in trust to heal the difficult and major problems confronting the nation?
Many believe [...]

 By John Feehery

The president and his team have a new strategy in dealing with congressional Republicans. 
Mr. Obama went to Baltimore last Friday and took more than an hour of his schedule to thrust and parry with the abused House Republican minority.
And then yesterday morning, David Axelrod, the president’s top strategist, went on “Meet the Press” [...]

By John Feehery - 01/20/10 =-
America loves an underdog.  And Scott Brown (R) was the big underdog in the Massachusetts Senate race against Democrat Martha Coakley that culminated in Brown’s triumph.
Brown reveled in his underdog status. He talked incessantly about his old truck, his tough childhood, his rags to riches story, and his long-shot status as [...]

By Mike Johnson
Those professional political consultants who told us 18 months ago that 2008 was going to be an election of seismic change should raise their retainers.
How many elections compare:  Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Reagan?
This was as historic as those and in some respects maybe more so.  This election produced transformational change:

in the way we [...]