I can't imagine being in Hillary Clinton's shoes right about now.

At her news conference last week, she really did look like the cat that swallowed the canary when asked about the reports that Barack Obama was considering her to be his Secretary of State.

If offered, would she dare...

No, I did not suffer a severe head injury or have a GOP epiphany since yesterday. My progressive bona fides are very much intact, thanks...

This morning when PunditGirl woke up, her eyes half open and still sleepy, snuggled under the covers, she quietly asked in her groggy morning voice,...

At first, I thought it was a little odd that John McCain would stick his toe in the waters of the corruption trial of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. But shortly after the jury announced it had found Stevens guilty of seven counts of ethics violations related to unreported favors...

As the mother of a daughter, there are things I want for my eight-year-old especially when she becomes a woman -- things that I was lucky to have, but that generations before me didn't. Interestingly, John McCain, as the father of daughters, doesn't seem to want those same things.

Since...

Even though I worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission for a number of years, trying to explain things like derivatives was never my strong suit. I got the whole concept of futures trading when I took my Agricultural Law class in law school (my farmer dad was...

Over the summer, I took my eight-year-old daughter to see the Meet Kit, American Girl movie.

For the uninitiated, Kit is the Depression-era girl whose dad loses his job, moves away to look for work and the family ends up taking in boarders and keeping chickens to sell eggs...

Well, I don't really know Sarah Palin personally, although, I have been to Alaska twice.

But over the course of my life, I've met plenty of Sarah Palins. I bet you have, too.

When I see Palin, I see the flirty high school cheerleader who...

Sarah Palin is good at memorizing.

That was clear last night during the debate between Palin and her Vice Presidential opponent Joe Biden. Many think she held her own and redeemed herself by being able to answer questions in complete sentences. That's not what I saw.

I saw a woman...

When I was a young attorney and freshly admitted to the bar, I made the "mistake" of saying to another lawyer who I was helping to prepare for a variety of court hearings, "Is there anything else I can do?"

"Well, now that you've been sworn in, why don't you...

It's not often that I'm surprised at what comes out of politicians' mouths. But when House Minority Leader John Boehner and his crew started whining like a bunch of petulant children about how things were going on the economic bail-out vote, I just about lost it.

Dear Jim Lehrer,

I know you're probably all on pins and needles right about know, as Barack Obama and John McCain make their way to Mississippi for the first...

Dear Sarah,

I hope you don't mind me calling you Sarah. I feel like we know each other so well, what with all the media coverage you've been getting in the last couple of weeks.

I know you're really proud of the working motherhood arrangement you've crafted...

After getting up at the crack of dawn today, I saw the headlines about Lehman, Merrill Lynch and AIG. Of course, we had a feeling news was coming of an economic meltdown after what happened with Fannie and Freddie, as well as Bear Stearns.

But...

Alaska Governor and GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin has the "big mo'." At least she seemed to have it in the St. Paul convention hall where she made the official transformation from "hockey mom" to party attack dog.

The Republican party faithful loved her. They cheered her on as...

I just have to ask, do we really need to go there?

No matter what you think of Alaska Governor and GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin's politics, I thought...

Sometimes I'm surprised at the thoughts that spring into my head when I'm not expecting them, especially the political ones.

Last weekend brought some much needed R&R from parenting as one of my stepdaughters took over the reigns, bringing down my mental anxiety a notch on a variety of fronts.

As many of my blogger friends head off to Denver this week to cover the Democratic convention, I am steeped in a little melancholy. I was planning to go as a credentialed blogger with my MOMocrat pals, but some family issues made it necessary for me to stay close...

First, Barack Obama wasn't sure he wanted to reach out to Hillary Clinton supporters because they should just get over it, probably feeling that women who traditionally voted Democratic would come around by November.

He may be right, but then I read in a column by Joel...

I thought it was pretty clear cut in eighth grade civics class -- to be President of the United States, you have to born in one of the 50...