Just You Wait, Barack Obama, Just You Wait

Dan Dorfman, 07.10.2009

Financial Columnist, Market Commentator

Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at UVA, predicted Romney, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and Mr. X to be the three Republican frontrunners in 2012.

Sarah Palin -- What a Schmuck

Kimberly Krautter, 07.03.2009

Southern Iconoclast, Atlanta Native, and Anti-Coulter

Who cares if she feels she has checked off her personal laundry list of things to do? You don't quit just because you want to pursue a new ambition.

In Wake of McCain, Sanford, Ensign: Grassroots Republicans Like Mitt Over Palin

Jennifer Donahue, 07.01.2009

Political Director, New Hampshire Institute Of Politics

Many of the Republicans who support Romney now liked him in 2008 but talked themselves out of it.

Five Conservative Fallacies on Post-Election Iran

Patrick Barry, 06.15.2009

From what I can tell, there are five strains of conservative arguments on Iran - none of them coming close to being credible.

You Homophobes Just Jealous Gay Weddings will be Better

Francesca Biller-Safran, 06.12.2009

Award-Winning Journalist, Author, Humorist, Website: FrancescaBiller-Safran.com

Let's just get to the heart of it already and be honest with one another, my anti-gay sisters and brothers. Those who oppose same sex marriage are ju...

Palin & Gingrich: Enough Limelight for Two?

Rick Horowitz, 07.10.2009

Satirist, and more.

They've both got their eye on a certain house in Washington. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Maybe you've seen pictures.

Commerce Secretary Locke: Rail Can Revive Auto Industry

Susan J. Demas, 07.06.2009

Syndicated columnist, political analyst and mlive.com blogger

Linking up with rail makes perfect sense for a contracting industry, at a time when environmental and economic factors make expanding public transit a necessity.

Same-Sex Marriage Protestors Announce Jealousy of Gay Weddings

Francesca Biller-Safran, 07.05.2009

Award-Winning Journalist, Author, Humorist, Website: FrancescaBiller-Safran.com

Let's just get to the heart of it already and be honest with one another, my anti-gay sisters and brothers. Those who oppose same sex marriage are ju...

Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Jealous that Gay Weddings will be Better than Theirs

Francesca Biller-Safran, 07.05.2009

Award-Winning Journalist, Author, Humorist, Website: FrancescaBiller-Safran.com

No more aging D.J.'s to get all the grandparents from Miami and New York and The Los Angeles Valley to dance to the Village People's "YMCA," because the Village People will finally be allowed to get married, and in high style at that.

Obama's Trip: Middle East 1: Europe 0

Robert Guttman, 07.04.2009

President Barack Obama has made it perfectly clear that the centerpiece of his current trip to the Middle East and Europe is his speech tomorrow in Cairo.

Mitt Romney's First Campaign Speech Against Obama

Jacob Heilbrunn, 07.02.2009

Author, They Knew They Were Right: the Rise of the Neocons

Romney's cynical speech today showed the extent to which the GOP sees America as the righteous redeemer, one that only needs to increase defense spending in order to save the rest of the globe.

Republican Presidential Campaign Starting in Iowa

Donnie Fowler, 07.02.2009

3-0 Prez Battleground Wins, Gore Nat'l Field Director, 2 IA Caucuses, 3 NH Primaries

The Associated Press' Mike Glover writes, "It's been six months since voters handed Barack Obama the White House, and in the minds of a lot of Iowa ac...

Romney, Chamber PR Blitz Ignores New Study Showing Unions Don't Coerce Workers

Art Levine, 06.29.2009

Contributing editor of The Washington Monthly

Those veteran champions of workers' rights, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and the Chamber of Commerce, unleashed new attacks this week on the Employee Free Choice Act.

Republican Circus: Extended Engagement

Paul Jenkins, 06.25.2009

The vacuum left by former clown-in-chief George W. Bush, ably lead by sinister foil Dick Cheney, has spawned an entire army of wanna-be Bushes: the ni...

The New Evita? Obama's Political Outreach by Lottery

Steve Clemons, 06.14.2009

Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation

Today, I received the note from Senator Bob Menendez promising Obama-time for a select few picked from those who kick in five bucks to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Meg Whitman Week -- Thursday: God and Meg at UCLA

Chris Kelly, 06.14.2009

Writer, Real Time with Bill Maher

Meg Whitman isn't a bigot. Because bigotry is almost a political position. Meg Whitman is running for governor because she thinks billionaires have to obey far too many laws. Gay marriage is a sideshow.

Specter: Loyal Opportunists

Paul Jenkins, 06.08.2009

There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.

Rebranding Will Not Be Enough For These Republicans

Lincoln Mitchell, 06.04.2009

Assistant Professor in the Practice of International Politics, Columbia University

Simply rebranding the Republican Party by somehow updating its image, with apologies to Sarah Palin, really is putting lipstick on a pig. Their problems go much deeper than that.

More Than "No," Republicans Are the Party of Nowhere, Nothing, Nonsense

Leo W. Gerard, 05.31.2009

President of the United Steelworkers International

The GOP's leaders and their inactions have placed the party at the corner of Unpopular and Nowhere.

Could Pat Robertson Be Mormon?

Paul Abrams, 05.09.2009

Entrepreneur, biotechnology, law, economics, politics, professional iconoclast

I always thought that it was the Mormons who received planets to manage in Heaven. Could it be that Robertson is, and always has been, a closet Mormon?

HuffPo Exclusive: Right-Wing PAC Behind Palin Poll Revealed

Geoffrey Dunn, 04.27.2009

Award-winning journalist, filmmaker and historian

There has been a series of robocalls made in recent weeks regarding Sarah Palin in two key primary states for 2012. Palin's "authorized" political action committee has formally denied conducting the poll.