Notes from the political sidelines.

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• The Benchwarmer George Bush just lost the job he wanted more than this one.
  Bruce Reed Dec. 18, 2007
  
• Planes, Trains, and Solicitations How to make your holiday travel plans without bumping into Larry Craig. Update: OMG at ORD!
  Bruce Reed Dec. 5, 2007
  
• Huck Thin Can we afford another president who's afraid of getting fat?
  Bruce Reed Nov. 29, 2007
  
• Truman Loses! In its bid for history, the Bush White House gets stuffed.
  Bruce Reed Nov. 19, 2007
  
• Rudy's Reader's Strike On the Internet, nobody knows you're a blog.
  Bruce Reed Nov. 7, 2007
  
• A Fool and His Earmarks Larry Craig gives the Senate a lesson in offender management.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 29, 2007
  
• Taggwarts On MySpace, even Tagg Romney and Albus Dumbledore can be friends.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 22, 2007
  
• Golden Hand Signals Is Larry Craig peering through the revolving door?
  Bruce Reed Oct. 15, 2007
  
• Nobel Man Al Gore is finally rewarded for taking the long view. Plus: CNN projects Gore the winner!
  Bruce Reed Oct. 10, 2007
  
• Word Problem Larry Craig, the irrational member who goes on forever with no solution.
  Bruce Reed Sept. 19, 2007
  
• Am Not Only 17 more scoffing days till Larry Craig's departure.
  Bruce Reed Sept. 10, 2007
  
• Go Ahead, Quit Us To Idaho's dismay, America still has Larry Craig to kick around after all.
  Bruce Reed Sept. 5, 2007
  
• Hot Potato Republicans can't drop Larry Craig fast enough.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 27, 2007
  
• The Long War The Passport Services Office says, "Don't call us. Call your congressman."
  Bruce Reed Aug. 22, 2007
  
• The Passport Is In the Mail One man's journey into the greatest bureaucracy ever assembled.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 14, 2007
  
• Honor Among Scribes A vegan speechwriter pens the juiciest hatchet job of the Bush era.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 11, 2007
  
• Song of Mitt's Self Romney's new strategy borrows a page from Walt Whitman: embrace the contradictions.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 5, 2007
  
• Water for Elephants Don't miss Mitt Romney's new ad for Hillary Clinton.
  Bruce Reed July 17, 2007
  
• Bush's the One Look who just tied Richard Nixon as the second-most unpopular president ever.
  Bruce Reed July 11, 2007
  
• The Life of Romney The Boston Globe's epic series about how Mitts are made, not born.
  Bruce Reed July 5, 2007
  
• Tagg, You're It! Meet my favorite Romney and his imaginary friend.
  Bruce Reed June 28, 2007
  
• The Ghost of Rudy Past For Giuliani, the real threat Bloomberg may pose is in the primaries.
  Bruce Reed June 19, 2007
  
• The Shrug Primary The best bad poll yet, with a margin of error of only +/- 57 percent.
  Bruce Reed June 14, 2007
  
• Cub and Run Without the immigration bill to kick around anymore, the next big target is China.
  Bruce Reed June 4, 2007
  
• My Fund-Raiser With André Why Romney never met a pol he didn't forget.
  Bruce Reed May 31, 2007
  
• Wink Announcing the Mitt Romney Look-Alike Contest. Plus: He's forgotten before!
  Bruce Reed May 21, 2007
  
• Is Bush Smarter Than a Fourth-Grader? Maybe he's failing on purpose, to help our young people make gains in civics and history.
  Bruce Reed May 15, 2007
  
• Rudy's Choice Giuliani's stand on abortion would be more courageous if he weren't always changing it.
  Bruce Reed May 8, 2007
  
• Trunk Call Captive Republicans look for sanctuary.
  Bruce Reed May 1, 2007
  
• It Takes a Bubba Tougher gun laws are better politics than you think.
  Bruce Reed April 23, 2007
  
• GOP's Gift to Women If Fred Thompson is Republicans' answer to the gender gap, how come women don't like him?
  Bruce Reed April 16, 2007
  
• My Kingdom for a Hound Mitt Romney finds out what it's like to run with the big dogs.
  Bruce Reed April 9, 2007
  
• The Rabbit Hunter How Mitt Romney took Republicans' guns away.
  Bruce Reed April 4, 2007
  
• Waiting for Magoo   Is Rudy Giuliani the next Steve Forbes—or the next Bernard Kerik?  Plus: Rackets v. Brackets.
  Bruce Reed March 31, 2007
  
• Losers Walk Can any Republican beat the odds?
  Bruce Reed March 22, 2007
  
• McCain Madness Slate fills out the Republican candidates' brackets.
  Bruce Reed March 14, 2007
  
• O Captain, My Captain For conservatives, no comic relief.
  Bruce Reed March 8, 2007
  
• Les Mitts Romney may say he hates the French, but he's the best ally they've ever had.
  Bruce Reed Feb. 27, 2007
  
• Mutually Assured Distraction It's in every campaign's interest to lose David Geffen.
  Bruce Reed Feb. 24, 2007
  
• Potomac Fever In Washington, it's not hard to find yourself on thin ice.
  Bruce Reed Feb. 13, 2007
  
• The Great Right Hope The conservative movement needs a wipeout in '08, and Idaho has their man.
  Bruce Reed Feb. 7, 2007
  
• Run for President Without Leaving Your House 
  Jan. 31, 2007
  
• The Ralph Primary Which Republican will Ralph Reed curse this time?
  Bruce Reed Jan. 31, 2007
  
• Goats Don't Answer Letters In Bush's State of the Union, heroes were named, not born.
  Bruce Reed Jan. 23, 2007
  
• Surge or Merge Is George Bush the next Guy Mollet?
  Bruce Reed Jan. 17, 2007