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When your congressional representative can’t find some kiddie human shields to hide behind, he or she may be choosing the next best method of constituent avoidance:
Phoning it in!
Over 10 years in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brian Baird has stayed tethered to his district, flying back to Southwest Washington for more than 300 sometimes-bruising town hall meetings [...]

*Update: Ed Morrissey and Hot Air readers are melting the phones. Join in!*

GOP: Time to Get Things Undone
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
President Obama thinks he knows what the primary objective of Republicans in Washington should be: To “get things done.” Bashing Rush Limbaugh last week, Obama urged GOP lawmakers to ignore the voices of [...]

Boots on the ground.

Top story of 2007.

Straying from the moonbat reservation.

“The surge is working.”

Stifling dissent.

Criticizing Katie Couric is fun, easy, and always good for some red meat-feasting. I’ve done plenty of it and it’s almost always deserved. But this time I’m not going to add my voice to those haranguing her for her decision to go to Iraq. Not yet, anyway.
Conservatives frequently criticize TV personalities for not taking [...]

“We don’t care what your convictions are,” said Jan Lustig of Vancouver. “You are here to represent us.

A liberal Democrat speaks. Will he be smeared now as a “chickenhawk?” Plus: An Iraq war round-up.