We've been looking forward to the launch of Patrick Gavin and Jeff DuFour's new daily Beltway column, "Yeas and Nays", for a few weeks now, largely so we could finally be sure just what sorts of topics the two would be covering under the somewhat inscrutable decscription of "people, power and politics." C'mon guys, that could be about anything from the current brouhaha at The New Republic to what kind of toilet paper Vice President Cheney prefers when he's on the road. At last this morning, we had our answer. And given that Gavin comes from FishbowlDC and DuFour from The Hill, we guess we shouldn't have been too surprised that the column has a fun, even light gossipy tone overall: the short blurbs in the inaugural edition cover Bill Frist's roadside heroism, Clinton Portis' birthday party, and Jenna Bush's imminent departure from the District. Nicely written up but certainly nothing you probably couldn't read about elsewhere -- except, that is, for this little gem:

"Let me explain the government to you. There’s God, then there’s the president and then there’s my father.”

— Jack Roberts, 6-year-old son of Chief Justice John Roberts, overheard speaking to one of his young peers on the last day of summer camp.