Notes from the political sidelines.

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• Bush's Trojan Rabbit Now he tells us -- he forgot the men!
  Bruce Reed Dec. 22, 2006
  
• Inside the Whale Michael Chertoff takes over the DHS branch of "The Office."
  Bruce Reed Dec. 16, 2006
  
• Circular Filing Squad Why Cabinet memos are bad, and Rumsfeld's was worse.
  Bruce Reed Dec. 7, 2006
  
• Off Year Ken Mehlman gives Republicans more reason to kill themselves.
  Bruce Reed Nov. 28, 2006
  
• Frequent Fryer Pardon the Tofurky.
  Bruce Reed Nov. 21, 2006
  
• Cats and Dogs Conservatives, take heart—you're better off than the pit-bull-rights movement.
  Bruce Reed Nov. 14, 2006
  
• Still Crazy After All These Years The nuttiest congressional district in America keeps its reputation intact.
  Bruce Reed Nov. 7, 2006
  
• Cheaper By the Dozen The Republican Class of 1994 finally keeps one promise: to go home.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 30, 2006
  
• What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? With this election sinking fast, Republicans debate how not to lose the next one.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 23, 2006
  
• Oops, We Did It Again Bush can eat crow now, or eat more of it later.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 17, 2006
  
• Mark of Distinction What the Democratic field can learn from Mark Warner.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 11, 2006
  
• Floor Pass The unfortunate saga of the House and PDAs.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 2, 2006
  
• Masterclass Theatre From Tony Blair, the best political memo on how to win in 2008.
  Bruce Reed Sept. 26, 2006
  
• Saving Brother Ralph If my evil twin can't resurrect himself, I'll have to do it for him.
  Bruce Reed Sept. 22, 2006
  
• Hello, Noonan Our new friend Peggy shamelessly promotes our book.
  Bruce Reed Sept. 11, 2006
  
• Nothing Doing Are Republicans failing on purpose?
  Bruce Reed Sept. 8, 2006
  
• The Patsy Principle Do Republicans really want Bush back on the campaign trail?
  Bruce Reed Aug. 30, 2006
  
• The Plan 1, Camus 0 Real men don't speak French.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 20, 2006
  
• Fermez La Bush Is our president French?
  Bruce Reed Aug. 18, 2006
  
• Anti-Dopes Is the president's testosterone real or synthetic?
  Bruce Reed Aug. 7, 2006
  
• Code Blue Could global warming melt the Republican majority?
  Bruce Reed Aug. 1, 2006
  
• Ralph Redux Evil twins never die, they just plot their political comeback.
  Bruce Reed July 25, 2006
  
• The Ralph in the Mirror Can the people of Georgia save me from my evil twin?
  Bruce Reed July 17, 2006
  
• The Case of the Brilliant Dash John Roberts shows why judges shouldn't punctuate from the bench.
  Bruce Reed July 10, 2006
  
• Not a Boom, But a Whimper Was the Baby Boom a Hoax?
  Bruce Reed July 6, 2006
  
• House Wrecker 
  Bruce Reed June 27, 2006
  
• If Not Now, Then Is politics better off than it was 10 years ago?
  Bruce Reed June 20, 2006
  
• Exit, Stage Right Compassionate conservatism's last true believer has left the building.
  Bruce Reed June 12, 2006
  
• Keep 'Em Laughing as You Go Conservatives look on the bright side of life.
  Bruce Reed June 6, 2006
  
• Original Zins Bush's new domestic piquancy adviser.
  Bruce Reed May 30, 2006
  
• The Huntsman Karl Rove's lease in the heart of Texas.
  Bruce Reed May 15, 2006
  
• The Flack Who Would Be Wonk Tony Snow wants to be a policymaker. Too bad the White House no longer makes policy.
  Bruce Reed May 3, 2006
  
• When Terry Met Peggy Will Tony Snow's gab be the gift that keeps on giving?
  Bruce Reed April 26, 2006
  
• All Shook Up The Bush White House relieves itself in public.
  Bruce Reed April 18, 2006
  
• After the Fall The finger-pointing begins over who lost conservatism.
  Bruce Reed April 12, 2006
  
• Think Again Look who's winning the battle of ideas.
  Bruce Reed April 3, 2006
  
• Shadow Games Can anyone in politics bat clean-up?
  Bruce Reed March 28, 2006
  
• No Idea Republicans unveil their new line for the fall.
  Bruce Reed March 20, 2006
  
• Snooze Alarm The side effects of Bush fatigue.
  Bruce Reed March 14, 2006
  
• Off Target Wonks, ripped from the headlines.
  Bruce Reed March 7, 2006
  
• The Whig Factor Tyrant or lapdog? History debates what Dubya stands for.
  Bruce Reed Feb. 27, 2006
  
• The Emperor Has No Vetoes Why is the Imperial President stripping the presidency of its greatest power?
  Bruce Reed Feb. 13, 2006
  
• Will Wonk for Food Should President Bush give me my old job back?
  Bruce Reed Feb. 6, 2006
  
• Bums' Rush House Republicans send their party a message: You are now free to panic about the country.
  Bruce Reed Feb. 1, 2006
  
• The Kaine Mutiny Why responding to the State of the Union isn't the next best thing to giving it.
  Bruce Reed Jan. 23, 2006
  
• Panic Button At last, House Republicans learn to run for their lives.
  Bruce Reed Jan. 18, 2006
  
• Concerned Alumni of Reagan Sam Alito goes from one group of grumpy old men to another.
  Bruce Reed Jan. 9, 2006
  
• Conservative Crackup The awkward campaign to convince us Sam Alito is funny.
  Bruce Reed Jan. 3, 2006