Cracks in Republican Unity: “Last week ought to have been a good one for Republicans in Congress: The House passed a budget, President Bush signed more tax cuts and immigration legislation advanced in the Senate with the blessing of the White House.

But within days of the budget passing, Republicans fell into an ugly spending fight, impugning one another’s honesty and patriotism on the House floor. Public resentment of oil-company profits, meanwhile, opened the door to a rout by environmentalists on the first 2007 appropriations bill. Even an elaborately staged tax-cut publicity event unraveled at the foot of the Capitol steps.” (Wall Street Journal)