WASHINGTON -- Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) is placing blame for the looming sequester firmly at the feet of Republicans in Congress, saying legisl...

The GOP put forth a doctrine that was, and is still today, a contract on America, the goal of which is the privatization of our public education, health & welfare system.

Democrats called the latest formal list of Republican promises the "Pledge to Destroy America." The destruction was done by the damned lies that denigrated trust in political institutions. It was deliberately done to diminish America's democratic government.

For as long as anyone can remember -- which, given the current state of our attention spans, is probably "Tuesday" -- Newt Gingrich has been touted as...

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich announced a "21st Century Contract With America" Thursday in Iowa, as his campaign runs low on cash, is stru...

ATLANTA -- A floundering presidential bid has fractured what was once a rock star Republican image. Not long ago, Newt Gingrich sat atop a lucrative p...

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich will unveil a "21st Century Contract With America" next week in Iowa, reports the Des Moines Register. ...

Republican overreach is in the air. You can see it, smell it, taste it everywhere, as you have in years past. And the only surprise is that is that it happened so quickly this time around.

Gingrich's chance to become president, to some extent, rests upon finding a potent if offbeat idea through which he can capture the imagination of his party's base.

In an Associated Press poll released last week, 38 percent of respondents approved of the job Democrats in Congress are doing, while 60 percent disapp...

The "Rally to Restore Sanity" and videos of a Move-On supporter being stomped are prompting calls for rational political discussion and a restoration ...

The polls are humming with Nate Silver http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/and much of the polling community predicting about a 50 vote Republica...

At least one of Newt's wives would tell us that Newt is a man who "played a wonderful con" in connection with his marriages and is "authentically dishonest."

If there were a Nobel Prize for political alchemy, there would be no doubt about who this year's winner would be. The Republican Party is about to turn a very large lump of steer manure into electoral gold.

Last month I rashly wrote that since Obama was starting the month on an upswing, he had a good chance of posting largish gains in September. This didn't happen.

The White House has been in the news this past week, mostly for who will be leaving it soon. One is tempted to insert the old "will the last to leave...

John Boehner's hard-tack hardware store pitch should have started with "I pledge allegiance to power." Fool me once with the Contract with America, sh...

The religious right offered a hesitant embrace of the Republican Party's new "Pledge to America," with several groups saying they are happy the GOP in...

The Republicans' Pledge to America is chock full of code-language for simply returning America back to the days of the failed Bush administration and its misguided economic and foreign policies.

On the ninth anniversary of 9/11, I received an email. It came from an uncle of a young man I've mentioned a few times in writing over the years. Cl...

STERLING, Va. — Pushing toward big gains on Nov. 2, House Republicans promised to end a slew of Democratic policies and restore Americans' trust...