Another GOP Retirement

Actually, there are two of them. Let’s start in Congress. We may hit two dozen of these folks jumping ship before the election rolls around.  That’s a huge change, if most of those seats go to Democrats.

NJ-07: Ferguson to retire, Stender looking good

Nice. “After barely defeating Linda Stender last year, Congressman Ferguson says he won’t seek reelection in 2008. His announcement is surprising considering he’s only 37 [...]The district has a partisan voting index of R+0.6, meaning it’s a serious [...]

Then, from the President’s inner circle…

Townsend’s goodbye to Bush: ‘You are such a man.’

Outgoing Homeland Security Adviser Frances Fragos Townsend today sent President Bush a three-page handwritten letter announcing her resignation. A highlight from the letter: In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, til all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime. Mr. President, you [...]