It’s going to be an action-packed week, to be sure.

Monday:
A filibuster showdown in the Senate?

Tuesday:
Justice Alito?
Main Street Journal’s U.S. Senate Debate and State of the Union reception

Wednesday:
President Bush visits Tennessee

Thursday:
U.S. House Republicans select a new leader

Friday:
Shelby County’s Lincoln Day Gala with Gov. Haley Barbour

Saturday:
This space for rent

Sunday:
Super Bowl

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Scheduling Faux Pas Redux

We wonder who at the Bob Corker (for Senate) campaign is responsible for the “grievous error” of scheduling an out-of-state fundraiser on the same day, at about the same time, as the President visits Tennessee. This type of scheduling faux pas does not speak well of the campaign’s organizational abilities, we must say.

“State of Our Values”

Sojourners, the Leftist Christian group led by Jim Wallis, has encouraged its members to hold house parties where they will discuss the President’s Address on Tuesday night. Their handbook is well made, I must stay, though its target audience is folks who believe food stamps and global warming are God’s most pressing concerns. Below are the discussion questions they’ll be asking each other; it actually wouldn’t hurt for conservatives to do the same:

• If you were the president and giving the State of the Union tonight, what would you say is the most important moral priority for our nation? (before)
• What is one of your moral priorities that you think the president will address tonight? (before)
• What is one of your moral priorities that you think the president will not address tonight? (before)
• What was one specific proposal you heard tonight that you liked? (after)
• What was one specific proposal you heard that you disliked? (after)
• What didn’t President Bush talk about that you would have liked to hear? (after)
• Did what he say resonate with your values on budget priorities? Tax priorities? Iraq and other foreign policy issues? (after)

“I don’t like to see a sick rabbit picked to death.”

Rep. Brian Kelsey’s announcement on Thursday is getting some interesting reactions from other members of the State House. Some say freshmen representatives shouldn’t shake the nest, and some ask if Kelsey is just after free publicity, but I think it’s a pot that needs to be stirred, and you can’t do that without publicity.

Shaken/stirred pun intended.