And It Begins

We'll see what transpires, but let me just say I trust many of the newly elected Blue Dog Democrats - including Virginia Senator James Webb - far more than I trust the President to protect us from Chuck Schumer.

To that end, he sketched out an expansive federal agenda: Teaming up with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on gun control, passing new tax incentives for urban job programs, and redirecting federal money to New York in return for the outsize tax collections that the federal government makes here.