The glow of the first week of an unrestricted generosity is wearing off, ... Now we're on to the stories of crime and cost and what are these guys going to do to the partisan balance.

I think of 2002 as the last gasp of the old order. The first gasp of the new order might well be 2010.

It makes you wonder, when they have so many problems, why they would let this fester the way they have.

It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history — even in Texas.

The Bush administration is in significant difficulty, and the leading figures in both the House and the Senate are in significant difficulty. All of these difficulties are going to go on.