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President Bush briefly previewed the new role he'll be taking on Saturday: father of the bride.

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Boy, the news stories today appear to contain a theme.  State Treasurer Sarah Steelman and Deputy Manager/Campaign State Treasurer Doug Gaston misused state money to pay Gaston and then lied about it.  Governor Blunt's office misused state resource for campaign purpose again yesterday after Jeff Harris had the audacity to be interviewed by reporters about Blunt's efforts to stop Harris' criticisms and the Sprinfield News Leader is "amazed and angry" at Blunt's misuse of resources from the day before yesterday (Making the SNL the third major paper to editorialize against Blunt's effort.  Kudos to the SNL editorial board for doing their jobs and pointing out that Nixon is right and Blunt is wrong on the e-mail requests.  That's what editorials are for.)

From AmericaBlog:
The whole country saw the real world implications of Indiana's tough new voter ID law on Tuesday. A group of 80 and 90 year old nuns were stopped from voting.

A similar bill is under consideration in Missouri -- again. That state's Supreme Court already struck down a previous effort to restrict voters in 2006. But the Republicans never stop.

This time, the nuns in Missouri aren't sitting back...
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Sen. Barack Obama closed in Friday on Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead among supedelegates, the Democratic officials who hold the balance of power in determining the party's presidential nominee.

PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidenti...

The House yesterday approved an ambitious plan to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure by helping them trade exotic loans with rapidly rising monthly payments for more affordable mortgages backed by the federal government.

Sen. Barack Obama began taking the first steps to unify the fractured Democratic Party for a general-election battle against Sen. John McCain, even as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continued to insist that she has the backing of a broader coalition that could carry the party to victory in November.

How will the Democratic nomination battle end? At a time when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faces ever longer odds in her quest to deny Sen. Barack Obama the nomination, that question has become increasingly important to the candidates and the party. Will it end happily or unhappily? Will the loser go...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday postponed consideration of a bill that would continue funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a bloc of conservative Democrats balked at the high cost of including several of Pelosi's favored domestic spending programs.

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) was cleared yesterday of any ethical misconduct for his association with prostitutes from the escort service run by the late Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called "D.C. Madam" who was convicted of running a call-girl ring.

Rep. Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.) yesterday admitted to a long-running extramarital affair with a retired Air Force officer and said he has a 3-year-old daughter with her.

House and Senate negotiators yesterday reached final agreement on a new farm bill that will spend close to $300 billion on nutrition, conservation, energy and farm subsidy programs over the next five years, but administration officials immediately announced that President Bush will veto it.

Washington's civil nuclear deal with India is in such desperate straits that the State Department has imposed unusually strict conditions on the answers it provided to questions posed by members of Congress: Keep them secret.

The House today approved an ambitious plan to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure by helping them trade exotic loans with rapidly rising monthly payments for more affordable mortgages backed by the federal government.

Sen. Barack Obama was greeted enthusiastically on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday, where the Democratic presidential candidate spent about half an hour chatting with members.

Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday said the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan while improving "our influence around the world."

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Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off contributions to congressional Democrats unless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi embraced his plan to finance revotes in Florida and Michigan, three officials familiar with their conversation said.