Whoever is elected to Congress and the presidency is going to have a satchel full of political IOUs to deliver on.

For Congress and the president, because they have had to make so much money to get elected, their options to implement reform are limited and probably not politically feasible.

After the Republicans took control of Congress in '94 and Newt Gingrich and company came to town, the money moved from being roughly equal between Democrats and Republicans to very heavily Republican.

Congress & the Presidency in the Television Age.

If we Republicans who are now in charge of both houses of Congress and the presidency are unable to make tough decisions and provide leadership, then we're going to be telling the American people we're no different [than the Democrats].

This is a story about what one election hath wrought to the PAC dollars, ... Again, being used to watching these things move very incrementally, it looks like the glacier just calved off and the Democrats were the victims in that one.