The average American out there doesn’t give a damn whether they called the press Saturday night or Sunday morning, and they don’t care whether they called the Corpus Christi paper as opposed to the White...

A lot of the goals are going to relate to spending, as opposed to going after a radical tax-reform package.

It’s naive all of a sudden to say that the White House just realized that there’s going to be a tough confirmation fight in the Senate. Of course there’s pressure from both sides, but he’s...

The (Bush) campaign would prefer not to have a floor fight on anything. Because the more we talk about the things we want to talk about, the better.

If the president decides he would be the best choice, he’s going to pick him. That’s it.

He’s reaching out and trying to repair things. He is working very hard at it.

If he can sometimes be a lightning rod and keep some of the criticism away from the president, I think that’s fine with him.

I don’t think he’s lost any of his zeal for Social Security reform, … The action has sort of shifted to the Hill now and the Ways and Means Committee so we’ll have to kind...

Dick Cheney does not wake up in the morning worried about what the press is going to say about him.

I’m not sure there’s a big win available. You’ve got to hit a bunch of singles.

There are incentives for the construction of refineries in the energy bill that he just signed, and it would make sense to talk about that. There is a real opportunity to help educate people about...

My personal preference is to go along with the press’ sense of entitlement because it’s easier to go along with it than try to fight it. But I don’t think he thinks that way.

Some of the conservative activists would prefer to have a sitting judge who has taken conservative positions on all their favorite issues. I’m sure the president considered some people like that, but that was never...

The thing that has worried me for most of the year is that the economy is very good, but the majority of voters don’t think so. Pocketbook issues matter for the ability to win elections...

The biggest problem is that the Democrats will not go along. They will keep their current primary calendar, which means their nominee will emerge in March, while the Republicans continue to fight until May or...

[Political analysts tell First Read, however, that it probably doesn’t matter how these potential oh-eighters position themselves on Katrina and its aftermath. Claremont McKenna College’s Jack Pitney explains that it’s always politically safe to blame...

Even though the president’s job-approval numbers are down a bit, the RNC is still raising money at a record clip. It’s likely a case where it’s the party activists that give, and they give no...