Bob has been on and around Capitol Hill for 40 years as a staffer, political operative, strategist and guru. He had his first burger at the Tune Inn in 1969 and they remain as greasy and tasty as ever.
OK, everyone believes the freeze on Federal employee pay demonstrates the courage and sacrifice of the people to bring down the deficit.What? It is, in fact, a pitiful sympolic gesture geared to appease the GOP leadership and take...
Here’s the latest scuttlebutt from Capitol Hill.
Heath Shuler is a two time offender in Washington D.C.
He lives infamy as a failed former number one draft pick by the Washington professional football...
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Can the new Congress and the White House escape gridlock? ...
If you have lived or worked on the Hill, you know the fear and trepidation sweeping through more than a few House and Senate offices.
If I learned one thing during my tenures on Capitol Hill, don't buy...
As if Congressional Democrats didn't have enough trouble with a listless economy, mounting unemployment and waning support of two foreign wars, the President incited further negative reaction by defending the locating of an Islamic community center a couple...
US District Court judge Susan Bolton did what opponents and proponents of Arizona's provocative illegal immigration mitigation law fully expected as the Court issued a temporary injunction tossing out the most flagrantly racist parts of the law and...
You can find pricey hamburgers, Thai, Indian, Chinese, French, German Pakistani, Mexican, Italian, Greek and even American food, dozens of banks, shoe stores, sports bars and Irish pubs, but try to find a bookstore or public library on Capitol Hill...
Some family business took my wife and I out to the Northwest. It was a refreshing hiatus from the heat and the miasma that is Capitol Hill these days.
At least the weather was better...the miasma not so...
It was no surprise that Attorney General Eric Holder filed an action to vacate SB 1070, the Arizona law requiring law enforcement officers to detain and question persons they believe might be illegal aliens.
And it was no surprise that...
In this time where daily newspapers are taking gas, I thought it might be worthwhile to give my assessment of the Washington-based newspapers being read on the Hill. I am excluding the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and...