Words of Wisdom (and Warning)

Bill Kristol reminds the President that it's awfully hard to win a political conflict if you're not even willing to fight. It's time for the Bush Administration to take up for itself -- all the people who have been defending it (and rightly so) deserve that much.

And John Fund finds disquieting parallels between flaky Republican congressional behavior and the goings-on that preceded the 1994 Democratic electoral debacle.

Finally, in my column over at The One Republic, I have a few modest suggestions for how the Republicans could start pulling it together.