A presidential campaign exposes candidates' strengths and weaknesses. The strengths they're eager to tell you about. So let's look at the weaknesses.

When Congress, on the eve of its adjournment, suddenly rushed in to try to block the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, it is impossible to believe that the motive was reasoned conscience.

Keeping people alive is the goal of medicine. We can only modify that policy in the case of patients for whom death is imminent.

On many questions--including whether a severely ill loved one lives or dies--the responsibility belongs to the individual, not the government.

Recent polling data on Congress, immigration, housing prices, and home schooling.

In an April 6-9 CBS News poll, only 15 percent of respondents said that the current Congress is accomplishing more than it usually does during a two-year period, compared to 67 percent who said it was accomplishing less.

There is no need to abandon basic Republican principles.

Focus on November's tough midterm elections, not President Bush's leadership,has curbed Congressional Republicans' appetite for rebellion.