Imagine how much more honest the Senate will be if the Udall/Merkley proposal passes. You want to filibuster something, you're gonna have to get up on your feet and rock it Jimmy Stewart (or Bernie Sanders) style.
So here's what we know: The president's job-approval rating is back up again, higher than it's been in months. And here's what we don't know: Why?
Supporters of nuclear disarmament won an important victory with New Start. But the difficult battle to secure Senate ratification indicates that making further progress will not be easy.
Sometimes there are simply no words to describe the behavior of Mitch McConnell's band of merry misanthropes -- also known as much of the US Senate Re...
The recent lame duck Congress affected the course of history by ensuring two future events will occur -- the reelection of President Obama and the decline of the United States as a serious world power.
I recently asked a number of people in the "political know" of Kentucky the question. "Who do you see emerging as the next leaders of Kentucky?"
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's role confirms our government is not operating as a democracy ruled by the will of the majority, but as a strangled entity tightly in the grasp of the minority and its take-no-prisoners leader.
Barack Shellac hit the market to great fanfare in early November, the latest entry in the burgeoning Do-It-Yourself home-repair category. The early word: Here's a shellacking you won't find lacking. Our own findings: Don't be so sure.
The people of Whoville wanted leadership a lot, But the Grinches who run the GOP did not. Legislation in the Lame Duck? How could it be?! They wanted...
In a few short weeks, the president has positioned himself as more bipartisan than the Republicans. If he stays the course, he will likely prevail in the 2012 presidential election.
The meeting was gaveled to order. (But gently -- the poor dears were short of sleep.)
While desperately poor families are forgoing Christmas this year Republicans fought tooth-and-nail for a gilded gift basket of income tax cuts worth $120 billion for America's super-rich.
You'd better sit still, You'd better not flee, You'd better just chill -- Don't shoot the TV! Bristol Palin's dancing with stars... She's missing t...
Today, a cross-section of distinguished Latino leaders from across the political spectrum, as well as in business, government, public service, enterta...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Ev'rywhere you go; Take a look in Tiffany's store, glistening once again With Wall Street bonus trinkets a...