It would show he's serious, and it would call the Republicans' bluff.

Voters in the Moore Poll back the Senate position on not raising taxes over the House budget, 61-26.

Charlie Cook: In playing to their rabid, Obama-hating base, the GOP ignores the fact that the rest of the electorate is not biting.

The case of Ben Carson, and whether he should have been disinvited from speaking at Johns Hopkins.

"Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon’s voluntary departure from his elected post should be acknowledged by more than a startling paragraph in a routine speech."

The new Republican nominee for lieutenant governor made the statement in a video last year.

Much anger but little to go on.

Not to mince words: "The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives, gone from sketchy to sinister, and, among liberals, from unsatisfying to dangerous. No one likes what they're seeing. The Justice Department assault on the Associated Press and the ugly politicization of the Internal Revenue Service have left the administration's credibility deeply, probably irretrievably damaged."

After a second round of very intrusive questions, the Tri Cities Tea Party concluded it was being targeted for a turn-down.

"You want government workers who are alert to their own tendency toward bossiness; who ladle out their power carefully, gram by gram; who are aware that they are not really as benevolent and disinterested as they seem to themselves. Most of all, you want people with a strong sense of self-restraint."