John Thune: “I've worked hard to strengthen our country's emergency response network in part by sponsoring and working on the…”

Odds are we plan on being here next week," said Thune.

I like the message. But it shouldn’t be paid for with taxpayer dollars.

There’s voter fatigue with high gas prices, and high diesel prices in my part of the world.

The only conclusion one can draw is that the Democrats have concluded that it is good politics for them not to allow the Republicans to ‘get a victory’ or the president to ‘get a victory’ in the middle of a political season.