In his Web-only column today, The Times’s Carl Hulse writes about how Republicans, in the effort to reclaim their majority next year, have been loading once mundane opposition motions with all sorts of political bombs, which they are then unleashing in press releases to local newspapers, on a special Web site and – presumably – in future 30-second campaign adds. “To hear Republicans tell it, some of the most politically vulnerable Democrats in the House have cast eye-popping votes in the opening months of their service in Congress,” writes Mr. Hulse. Go to Column.