I have been away most of the week.  But there’s been some great comments and posts since I have been gone.

All sorts of interesting stuff this week:

Republican Debates (if anybody could stand watching it)

Tancredo gets the Hysterical Idiot of the Week Award (The last half of this post notes that Obama is getting a great deal of flak for something Bush started.  Pretty interesting.)      

Congressional infighting before the August Break

And Bush got a six month pass on warrant-less surveillance.

And more…