Joe Hallett of The Columbus Dispatch reports that Ohio Senator George Voinovich recently approached former Secretary of State Colin Powell and tried to get him to run for the GOP’s nomination.

Sen. George V. Voinovich visited former Secretary of State Colin
Powell about a month ago and urged him to seek the Republican
nomination for president in 2008. […]

Just in my email box from Rep. John Larson (CT-01):
“I am pleased that my colleagues in the Senate have raised the issue of revoking President Bush’s authority to wage war. The President callously and carelessly entered this war. Clearly, things have gotten worse and not better. We cannot afford to have a President […]

Jim Himes, challenger to Chris Shays from Cos Cobb, has released the following statement on President Bush’s veto of the Iraq Accountability Act, a bill that would have supported the troops and set a time table for withdrawal from Iraq. From HimesForCongress.com:
“Yesterday, President Bush vetoed the Iraq Accountability Act, which would have set a date […]

Last night President Bush vetoed the Iraq war spending bill, which would have sent $124 billion to American troops and help fund other emergency projects (Katrina, homeland security spending) that the previous Republican Congress never got around to funding. There’s a lot I’d write in response that would go far beyond being irreverent and would […]

Mike from Blue Hampshire interviewed Senator Chris Dodd on Sunday and used his time to try to address what the senior senator from Connecticut thinks ending America’s presence in Iraq really means.
Mike: There’s some concern about the bases we’ve built in Iraq, and whether the candidates are clear about whether we are turning those bases […]

Chris Shays, after returning from taxpayer funded trip number sixteen to Iraq:
U.S. strategy is “working as well as hoped, if not better.”
I was going to write a longer post about Shays trip with Chris Murphy to Iraq and their differing reactions to our progress there, the expectations for success from the Iraqi political process, and […]

John McCain seems to be actively seeking to destroy his campaign because of a lack of ideas on Iraq. McCain so heavily advocated for escalating the war in Iraq this fall and winter that the surge was suitably labeled the McCain Doctrine. It is a position grossly out of step with what the majority of […]

Despite his reputation as being strong on national security and foreign policy, Rudy Giuliani is a man who simply had foreign policy happen to him because of failures in national security. Though his consulting firm has done a good deal of security consulting since his term as mayor expired, Giuliani has never held an office […]

Tagged onto an Adam Nagourney article about McCain jumping the shark in his attacks on Democrats who are trying to end the Iraq war is this potent note about the sorry state of John McCain’s presidential campaign:
The troubled presidential campaign of Senator McCain is eliminating some nonsenior staff positions and cutting some consultants’ contracts. The […]

John McCain’s new petition calls the supplemental funding bill, which includes a deadline for redeploying American troops from Iraq, “surrender.” The petition includes a description of what McCain thinks is problematic legislation:
The supplemental appropriations bill that passed the Senate on March 27, calling for a date certain withdrawal from Iraq, is nothing more than a […]