It sounded good, anyway. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay would treat House Republicans attending the GOP convention like kings and queens, providing a plush hospitality suite on a Union Pacific train and 24-hour limo service. The train worked like a charm. But it seems the limo plan backfired. (Read on.)

Former President Gerald Ford, who suffered a mild stroke this morning, may have been feeling the effects of an earlier episode when he appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal Tuesday. A C-SPAN staffer tells Whispers that Ford, 87, "sounded very fatigued. He sounded like someone who had a stroke, his speech was slurred." (Read on.)

The Republicans hate it when the Democrats say they're out of touch, but consider: When the Republican National Committee sent out its events calendar via computer, it had all the times wrong. According to one insider, "I checked with the chairman's office, and it appears that this is because the time on our computers is set to Guam time." (Read on.)

Uh oh, here comes the controversy. A handful of Republican National Convention delegates from George W. Bush's homestate of Texas are threatening to walk out Tuesday night when Rep. Jim Kolbe, an openly homosexual House Republican from Arizona, takes the podium. (Read on.)