Sanjay Gupta wasn’t chosen for his policy views, and he won’t be dumped for having tangled with Michael Moore.

But a reader points out one more way in which the likely incoming Surgeon General isn’t a man of the left: …

Missouri’s Kit Bond is retiring, leaving the Senate Republicans yet another seat to defend on a dismal 2010 map.

Maureen Dowd’s February, 2007 column in which Hollywood mogul David Geffen flayed Hillary Clinton was an early sign of the campaign to come. And with the close of the cycle on January 20, she’ll be hosting Geffen at her …

Earlier this week the foreign policy insider Chris Nelson floated, then reeled in, the notion that Obama would appoint three high-profile envoys: Richard Holbrooke to South Asia; Dennis Ross to Iran; and Richard Haass to the Mideast. There’s been …

The Trib (a must-read today) reports that Cass Sunstein, an old University of Chicago friend and advisor and prolific legal scholar, will head — and raise the profile of  — a low-profile White House office.

Sunstein is a constitutional scholar …

The only thing we have to fear, Obama will say in his George Mason speech today, is not passing his stimulus package.

If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years. The unemployment rate could reach double digits. …

So much for it being a "Senate matter?"

Rick Pearson and Mike Dorning:

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate’s Democratic majority opened the way Wednesday for Roland Burris to become Illinois’ next senator, pressured by President-elect Barack Obama to remove a …

My story this evening:

Move over David Plouffe. The cleverest Democratic campaign manager of the new year appears to be none other than Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

In a season of troubled "rollouts" – think Sarah Palin and Caroline …

Burris, feeling good, claims Jimmy Carter’s support.

Obama will work with him.

His seating might close a door on Franken, for a time.

A reader offers a Blago themed country song.

A Haaretz columnist heard Obama’s Gaza words as …

It’s a pretty shrewd one.

From his gubernatorial launch today:

In the Richmond town hall, Bob Hiett accused McAuliffe of purposely "dropping his G’s" when he speaks to portray a southern accent.

McAuliffe responded, "I don’t think …