Norah O'Donnell's Husband's Restaurant

Chef Geoff Tracy, the moving force behind the two restaurants bearing his name, is still waiting for George W. Bush to keep the campaign promise he made while running for president in 2000.

Tracy wife, NBC-TV White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell, was covering then-Gov. Bush at the time and told him that Tracy was about to open a restaurant near American University. Bush promised her that if elected, he'd come to dinner.

Every Christmas we get invited to the White House Christmas party, and she reminds the president of his promise, the 31-year-old Boston native said while waiting for his wife to return from a weeklong trip with the Bush campaign shortly before the Republican National Convention. And he laughs and says, Well, I guess well have to chalk that up as another broken campaign promise.

Maybe you'll run into NBC's Norah O'Donnell there, as her husband, Geoff Tracy, is Chef Geoff. The Oculus has also seen Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie there, though he was enjoying a domestic bottle at the bar with an RNC aide.

As budding politicians go, Michael Monroe's main advantage is that he's got the look. The 25-year-old Republican candidate for Washington, D.C.'s congressional seat might not have the experience, of the money, or the ideas. But he's got the look: coiffed blonde hair, deep-set, earnest eyes, even a slight cleft to his chin. From head to me, he looks like he was born to cut ribbons at grocery-store openings, to press the flesh at shopping malls and Kiwanis Club pancake breakfasts. It's almost enough to make you believe Monroe when he argues, very sincerely, that he's got a legitimate chance at knocking off Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's non-voting, yet wildly popular, seven-term delegate to the U.S. Congress. "My plan will be clear and the end goals will be clear. She'll see that this isn't just some kid with his name on the ballot, this is a serious Republican contender," he implores, looking at me guilelessly. "People say it's crazy; it's impossible--but the only thing impossible would be not to try."

We're sitting at a table in the back of Chef Geoff's, a restaurant in downtown Washington which functions as the de facto campaign headquarters for Monroe's long-shot bid.

Longtime Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is expected to prevail over her relatively unknown opponent, Republican Michael Andrew Moore, the 25-year-old marketing director for Chef Geoff's restaurants.

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I am appalled by the Massachusetts court decision today to legalize gay marriage. This is another example of an activist judiciary out of control, just like the 9th Circuit Pledge of Allegiance case and the 11th Circuit Ten Commandments case. It is my hope that Congress will condemn this case, like it did the previous two, with significant bipartisan majorities.

Traditional marriage is under assault by an overreaching judiciary. The Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) will likely be a target as the federal judiciary wages war against traditional marriage. Congress must now consider every Constitutional mechanism available to address the real and growing problem of judicial activism, and do all we can to prevent the courts from creating a new right by dictating to America that homosexual marriage is the supreme law of the land.

Yesterday, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee said our troops cant win in Iraq. Howard Dean effectively signaled to insurgents and terrorists everywhere that his party was ready to wave the white flag in the War on Terror.

For the sake of political gains, Dean Party has chosen to trivialize the sacrifices our men and women in uniform have made in Iraq. His Party has gone from attacking the liberation of Iraq, to attacking the Bush Administration, to attacking the Armed Services of this country and saying they cannot win.

Howard Dean comments were a direct attack on the morale of our military and border on treasonous.

Regardless of your opinions on Iraq, it is wrong to attack the capabilities of our military for the purposes of political gain. I call on Mr. Dean to resign as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

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