  I have a button on my coat that says "Re-Defeat Bush. " Usually, people think it's a pro-Bush button at first, because it's red, white & blue, and the biggest word on it is "Bush. " Once they get it, though, most people love it. I get stopped on the Metro by people who want to tell me how great my button is.
It's fantastic. The reaction to my button got me thinking about how rare overt partisanship is in Washington. You'd think Washingtonians would be more political than anyone else, but it seems that nonpartisanship a part of professionalism here. I guess you gotta put your passions aside to do the actual work of governing, especially if you want to survive when the White House changes teams.
You don't see a lot of political posters on the street, and while people like talkin' about the '04 horse race, they don't usually say anything about where their own loyalties lie. People at my office take an oh-you-young-firebrand-you tone with me. They think it's odd and naively sweet that I'm an out-of-the-closet Bush hatah. Right now I love: Maggie. She's coming to visit for my birthday! 
