The invitation sent out by Jo Bonner asks political action committees to send people to the party with $1,000 checks written to him. Do you think the fishermen from Jo Bonner’s Gulf Coast district could afford that entrance fee right now?

Let’s put the news that Alabama Representative Parker Griffith has switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in its proper context: that of his policy behavior in the House of Representatives. In his consequential voting and cosponsorship behavior, it’s clear that Parker Griffith switched over to the Republican Party long ago. To his [...]

A summary of the seven Democratic candidates competing to succeed Congressman Artur Davis in the 7th congressional district in Alabama.

Seadrill, one of the companies involved in the Australian spill, has set up offices in Houston and is targeting the Gulf of Mexico for additional operations. Congressman Parker Griffith seems to think that’s just fine – but then, he’s got nothing to lose.

Spencer Bachus is posing as an opponent of government-run health care, but in his own back yard, he helps to keep a government-run health care system going by feeding it through congressional earmarks. Do his constituents realize that the very politician who warns of a “government takeover” of health care gives money to the government-controlled health care infrastructure that already dominates the practice of medicine in their district?

Visiting the official congressional web site of U.S. Representative Bobby Bright, one gets the feeling that he doesn’t care too much about communicating with his constituents. Almost the entire site is filled with links to governmental agencies other than Bright’s own office that can help constituents with problems because, it seems, that Congressman Bright isn’t [...]

I wanted to know what congressional candidate Nick Sparks had to say about the FISA Amendments Act. Does he support its measures giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies? Does Sparks support the aspects of the law that enable physical searches of Americans’ homes by government agents without any search warrants or judicial approval?

Please, let’s hear no more about how Barack Obama needed to support the FISA Amendments Act in order to get the support of red state America. Voters in Alabama wanted change, and they believed in the message of Barack Obama, until they saw that Obama plans on giving America the same old dirty politics of fear that Alabamans have been stuck with for generations. Red state Americans oppose the FISA Amendments Act too, and they see through Barack Obama’s crass maneuvering to pander to the right.

Congress is coequal with the Presidency. No single congressional leader has the kind of power the President wields, but collectively, members of Congress have just as much heft – if they choose to use it, rather than engaging in the spineless acquiescence of the years under George W. Bush.

What is Alabama’s Congressman Robert Aderholt working on? Making it harder to get married. With all the real difficulties people in his home district are going through, Representative Aderholt has just signed on to a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it more difficult for people to get married.