Sonia Sotomayor

Among the 68 U.S. senators who voted Thursday to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court was Missouri Republican Christopher S. “Kit” Bond.

This editorial page has had its differences with Mr. Bond, and he with us,…

Missouri Republican Sen. Kit Bond announced today that he would vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote is expected before the Senate goes into recess on Friday. No more than seven Republicans are expected to…

The Washington Post takes a look at infighting in Missouri Republican politics and finds it fascinating:

“What adult acts like this?” asked Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit watchdog group. “Senators are not spoiled…

My Wednesday column contrasted the solicitous treatment the government gives to retired senior officers moonlighting as on-air military analysts with the years of continuing struggle faced by active-duty troops and veterans to get decent care for mental problems, including post-traumatic…

Back before things got so polarized, it was said that American politics stops at the border. Democrats and Republicans might squabble at home, but they’d present a united front abroad.
Every now and then, there are signs that the good old…

It’s hard to think of $21 billion as pocket change. But as a fix for the subprime mortgage mess, $21 billion barely will buy a Band-Aid. Nevertheless, the Senate seems determined to push ahead with this “rescue lite” for struggling…