Notes from the political sidelines.

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• Power Down Has executive activism turned the President into a wimp?
  Bruce Reed Dec. 20, 2005
  
• Face Off Brain-dead politics shops for a new look.
  Bruce Reed Dec. 12, 2005
  
• Age Before Beauty Impotence is as impotence does.
  Bruce Reed Dec. 6, 2005
  
• Deliverance If we can't afford corruption in West Virginia, how can we afford it in Washington?
  Bruce Reed Nov. 28, 2005
  
• Free As a Bird Which turkeys will Bush pardon next?
  Bruce Reed Nov. 22, 2005
  
• America's Least Wanted Another Bush earns his place on a Rushmore for the rejected.
  Bruce Reed Nov. 14, 2005
  
• You Don't Gotta Believe Rafael Palmeiro shows Scooter Libby how the pros beat the rap for perjury.
  Bruce Reed Nov. 8, 2005
  
• Lapsed Scooter Libby isn't the only Republican to try the faulty-memory defense.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 31, 2005
  
• Hari-Karl Why Bush should tell Rove to follow in Miers's footsteps.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 25, 2005
  
• Crack Party In Britain, Tories get a taste of what lies ahead for conservatism.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 17, 2005
  
• More Blog, Less Thought Your mother-in-law drives like a third-string chemistry professor. Plus: Why friends don't let friends get confirmed.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 11, 2005
  
• Three Men and a Party At last, Democrats get a clue.
  Bruce Reed Oct. 3, 2005
  
• Spice Girl How will the world ever learn to like America if it has to like Karen Hughes?
  Bruce Reed Sept. 26, 2005
  
• The Loot Stops Here How to stop members of Congress before they spend again.
  Bruce Reed Sept. 19, 2005
  
• Finding Private Roberts If John Roberts were a poem, what would he mean?
  Bruce Reed Sept. 12, 2005
  
• Hack of a Job The president learns that a good hack is hard to find.
  Bruce Reed Sept. 7, 2005
  
• Miracle Worker Bush longs for James Lee Witt, the Clinton man he should have kept.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 29, 2005
  
• It's Not About the Mountain Bike The real problem with Bush's holiday is that it won't stop when he goes back to work.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 22, 2005
  
• In the Rough Tom DeLay should worry less about judges and more about grand juries.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 15, 2005
  
• Keeping Up Appearances Justice isn't all that's blind.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 9, 2005
  
• War Is Swell A vacation guide to the war on terror.
  Bruce Reed Aug. 1, 2005
  
• Duty, Honor, Lobby Andrew Card challenges America's youth to give something back.
  Bruce Reed July 15, 2005
  
• Desperate Housewives George Bush learns you can't go home again.
  Bruce Reed July 5, 2005