Leading constitutional law scholars have come out and said that what the president is supporting ... would indeed strike at the heart of any state's ability to pass domestic partnership benefits [and] civil unions.

These are the desperate acts of a desperate president who is going to try and drag this country through a cultural war to jump-start a failing campaign.

It's a wake up call to all of us that we are not safe from gun violence and we need to redouble our efforts to do everything possible to prevent gun violence.

Today, we saw President Bush and the Republican leadership attempt to divide America and it backfired, instead dividing their own party, ... We saw the politics of distraction fail and fail handily.