This is just breaking within the last hour. Republican Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi will resign before the end of 2007. CNN cites as the reason: "Lott intends to join the private sector."

Michigan conservative activists Gerald and Sonja "Smokie" Wall have announced their endorsement of Governor Mitt Romney for the 2008 Presidential election. The former Michigan Brownback Campaign leaders have joined Governor Romney's team following Senator Brownback's announcement that he would no longer seek the Republican Party nomination.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) today challenged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice over the Administration's efforts to press legislators to oppose the Armenian Genocide Resolution, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

Republican Sam Brownback being an outsider will drop out of the 2008 campaign on Friday. Brownback, a senator from Kansas, had trouble raising money to compete in the race. He is expected announce his withdrawal in Topeka, Kansas.

US Senate Republicans have quite a lengthy list of problems to deal with: untimely resignations, an unpopular war and a troubling 2008 election landscape. The list has been added with yet another issue - Larry Craig and his sex scandal.

The longtime head of the U.S. central bank, Alan Greenspan, has criticized the economic policies of President Bush and the Republican-majority Congress.

Roll Call today broke a story that Senator Larry Craig, a veteran republican senator from Idaho was arrested in in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom.

An influential U.S. Senate Republican says President Bush should announce an initial withdrawal of troops from Iraq on September 15. Senator John Warner of Virginia made his comments to reporters Thursday, just days after visiting Iraq. VOA's Deborah Tate reports from Capitol Hill.

Today's presidential Republican debate in Iowa showed that the Republican candidates offer nothing more than a continuation of George Bush’s failed policies for America. The nine candidates on stage either ignored or criticized policies that would benefit Iowans. Instead they focused on their support for the Bush Administration's failures to improve health care, lessen our nation’s dependence on foreign oil and change the strategy in Iraq.

Forget Bill. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic presidential leader, has become the Republican presidential candidates' favorite punching bag.

Breaking news from New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg left the Republican Party on Tuesday and switched to unaffiliated, a move certain to be seen as a prelude to an independent presidential bid that would upend the 2008 race, reports AP

South Carolina's Republican Treasurer, Thomas Ravenel, has been indicted on federal cocaine charges. I wonder what kinda of spin will come from the Rudy Giuliani campaign since Ravenel is the state chairman for Rudy's presidential campaign. You know, the same Rudy that Vitty-cent has endorsed. I think Oyster is right, it's the gift that keeps giving.