Given that 30 out of the top 50 (60%) districts in trouble with foreclosures (34 out of the top 56 listed - 60.7%) are in Republican controlled turf, you might think Republicans would be working harder to save these homes in their own districts. But you would be wrong.   Read more…

Via The Man in the Grey Turtleneck, Our Betters are having a little get-together:

Incivility in American Politics: Is the U.S. at Risk for Disaster in Political Discourse? Are Voters Fed Up?

April 25, 2007

WASHINGTON - Elected officials and university scholars will examine incivility in politics and the increasing polarization of policy debate at the Penn Conference on Civility and American Politics April 30 on Capitol Hill. Conference participants will discuss whether, in a time of increasingly rancorous political discourse, the United States is reaching a tipping point that makes incivility a bad political strategy and a worse governance strategy and whether this has implications for the 2008 presidential election.

The Penn Conference on Civility and American Politics will bring U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I-Likud], an Independent Democrat from Connecticut, and U.S. Rep. John ["Not pronounced 'Boner'"] Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, together with scholars [sic] from Penn, Brookings and AEI and with the editor/publisher of Governing Magazine to explore how incivility affects the political system and the ability to tackle the problems of 21st-century life in the U.S.

Quite the line-up, there, eh? It's almost like no Democrat want to get in the same live-shot with Joe. I wonder why that would be?

Anyhow, for those of you with time on your hands, there will be a live feed: