Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch looks at the political scene in the White House, Congress and throughout the nation's capital.
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As a leader of the "Pray at the Pump" movement, Rocky Twyman spent the summer visiting service stations to ask God for lower gas prices. But after he saw the House of Representatives collapse in chaos as it attempted to pass a financial bailout on Monday, Twyman headed to Capitol Hill yesterday with a new cause.
The bailout bill was going down to defeat on the House floor yesterday, and Democratic and Republican leaders were desperately trying to twist arms and change votes when a bipartisan group of backbenchers began to heckle them.
OXFORD, Miss., Sept. 26 It was supposed to have been a Goldilocks debate.
Sen. Ted Stevens, his career and his freedom in jeopardy, did the honorable thing as he went on trial yesterday on corruption-related charges. He blamed his wife.
Congressional leaders assembled yesterday on the West Front of the Capitol for the "First Nail Ceremony" to start work on the viewing platform for the Jan. 20th presidential inauguration. While they had the hammer out, they should have nailed a sign to the Capitol door: "Help Wanted."
"I don't like to be in this position, asking for things and, you know, answering to the American taxpayer," Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson informed the Senate banking committee yesterday.
It's about time somebody in this town stood up for the big guy.
As a leader of the "Pray at the Pump" movement, Rocky Twyman spent the summer visiting service stations to ask God for lower gas prices. But after he saw the House of Representatives collapse in chaos as it attempted to pass a financial bailout on Monday, Twyman headed to Capitol Hill yesterday with a new cause.
The bailout bill was going down to defeat on the House floor yesterday, and Democratic and Republican leaders were desperately trying to twist arms and change votes when a bipartisan group of backbenchers began to heckle them.
OXFORD, Miss., Sept. 26 It was supposed to have been a Goldilocks debate.
Sen. Ted Stevens, his career and his freedom in jeopardy, did the honorable thing as he went on trial yesterday on corruption-related charges. He blamed his wife.
Congressional leaders assembled yesterday on the West Front of the Capitol for the "First Nail Ceremony" to start work on the viewing platform for the Jan. 20th presidential inauguration. While they had the hammer out, they should have nailed a sign to the Capitol door: "Help Wanted."
"I don't like to be in this position, asking for things and, you know, answering to the American taxpayer," Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson informed the Senate banking committee yesterday.
It's about time somebody in this town stood up for the big guy.
As a leader of the "Pray at the Pump" movement, Rocky Twyman spent the summer visiting service stations to ask God for lower gas prices. But after he saw the House of Representatives collapse in chaos as it attempted to pass a financial bailout on Monday, Twyman headed to Capitol Hill yesterday with a new cause.
The bailout bill was going down to defeat on the House floor yesterday, and Democratic and Republican leaders were desperately trying to twist arms and change votes when a bipartisan group of backbenchers began to heckle them.
OXFORD, Miss., Sept. 26 It was supposed to have been a Goldilocks debate.
Sen. Ted Stevens, his career and his freedom in jeopardy, did the honorable thing as he went on trial yesterday on corruption-related charges. He blamed his wife.
As a leader of the "Pray at the Pump" movement, Rocky Twyman spent the summer visiting service stations to ask God for lower gas prices. But after he saw the House of Representatives collapse in chaos as it attempted to pass a financial bailout on Monday, Twyman headed to Capitol Hill yesterday with a new cause.
The bailout bill was going down to defeat on the House floor yesterday, and Democratic and Republican leaders were desperately trying to twist arms and change votes when a bipartisan group of backbenchers began to heckle them.