Newt for president? ... "Callista and I will look seriously and we'll probably get our family totally engaged, including our two grandchildren, prob...
The Plum Line | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
Okay, the Limbaugh wars have just taken yet another weird new turn -- Rush is claiming that a high profile GOP leader who appeared to disagree with hi...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Democrats in Congress could really use a lesson in the art of politics from President Obama. They have handed the Republicans a legitimate issue to complain about, and there isn't a single good reason for it.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Add another job description to Barack Obama's title: facilitator in chief. The president presided over a White House fiscal summit...
Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
The stimulus debate, or lack thereof, proved beyond a doubt that forward-thinking individuals must join the netroots-driven political realignment happening across America to have meaningful impact.
Jonathan Melber | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
Eric Cantor is getting a lesson on what "fair use" isn't: his chest-beating, stimulus-opposing, victory-proclaiming video set to the tune of Aerosmith's "Back in the Saddle."
Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
While it makes a lot of sense for individual House Republicans to oppose Obama initiatives, claims that such self-interest somehow comprises a national comeback strategy is delusional.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
Eric Cantor's fixation with Churchill is emblematic of the broader worship of American conservatives for the British prime minister.
Lee Camp | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
Jane Hamsher | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
There appears to be a pretty big gap between what DC journalists think Americans think, and what Americans actually think. Look at the DC media's "winners" and "losers" in the wake of the stimulus bill.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
UPDATE: Aerosmith has asked the House GOP to stop using their song, "Back in the Saddle," TPM reports. The GOP's use of the tune "was something we, ...
New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics
The last time Congressional Republicans were this out of power, they turned to a college professor from Georgia, Newt Gingrich, to lead the opposition...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
UPDATE: Rep. Eric Cantor's spokesperson has apologized: "I would like to apologize for a joke that was in no way an official response from Congressm...
Robert Creamer | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
By obstinately opposing Obama's plan to create or save 4 million jobs, the Republican leadership could be leading its followers from their current political wilderness into "never-never" land.
Washington Independent | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
Republicans began this week on an upswing, confident that their unanimous vote in the House and lopsided vote in the Senate against the Democrats' ...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
Is it curious that the Republicans suddenly remembered that they're against government spending at the same moment that a guy with a "D" after his name moved into the White House?
Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
You've seen those shows on Animal Planet about retraining snarling mongrels to stop pooping on the carpet? Well, welcome to Congressional Planet. And say hello to the new trainer: Barack Obama.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The day will come when Obama will have no choice but to remind the giant corporations through tough government action that the U.S. is not just another one of their wholly owned subsidiaries.
The Plum Line | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
Whatever you think of the politics of it, the House GOP's decision to oppose President Obama's stimulus package en masse has been awfully good for the...
Ira Forman | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
At the House GOP retreat this weekend Minority Whip Eric Cantor made the following crack about Health and Human Services designee, Tom Daschle. "It's...
The Plum Line | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
GOP leaders -- led by John Boehner and Eric Cantor -- have spent days bashing the economic stimulus package being touted by President Obama and Democr...
AmericaBlog | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
This says so much about the culture in Washington. You'd like to think that members of Congress are looking out for the nation's good and the well bei...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
The same political Neanderthals that helped execute their disastrous strategy of the last two election cycles are still firmly in control of House Republicans.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
In an editorial in Politico, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor says that Republicans can't simply be the "no" party. At a moment when the country nee...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
At a meeting with Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama acknowledged that passage of a stimulus package will i...
Richmond Times-Dispatch | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics