Even Robert Novak Admits: GOP Still Loves Pork
When House Republicans convene behind closed doors today at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., they have a chance to make two bold...
When House Republicans convene behind closed doors today at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., they have a chance to make two bold...
Art Levine | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
To Clinton's critics, the ad seems to be another tactic borrowing heavily from the Karl Rove-style gameplan.
Carol Hoenig | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
In their recently published books, two authors claim responsibility for where we are politically as a country. Stephen Marks and Frank Schaeffer didn'...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
The Clinton slams have become part of an all too troubling Obama template. He tosses out barbs and then steps back and presents himself as the wronged victim.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
This riles up Paul backers who go nuts over any hint that he is anything less than the second coming of St. Paul and Mother Theresa.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 01.08.2008 | Media
"Thank you, New Hampshire, fro--" He wants to say, from the bottom of his heart, but the cheering of "Mac is Back" is interrupting him. It would have ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
The jury is still way out on just how many inflated expectations Obama can fulfill. But there are glaring clues as to how much change he can or will even try to make.
NY Times | DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics
As a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former speechwriter for President Bush, you're surprisingly critical of him in your new ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics
If Obama surge becomes a tidal wave, the hit squads will load up on him as they have on countless others. It's nasty and brutal, but it's what passes for politics American-style.
TPM | Posted 01.05.2008 | Politics
The New Hampshire Republican Party has pulled out as a co-sponsor of tomorrow night's Fox News debate, due to the controversies surrounding the exclus...
Beverly Davis | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
DES MOINES -- In the final hours before the Iowa caucuses, the top two Republican candidates continued their verbal slugfest by trading accusations o...
Ellis Weiner | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
Take one step back from this carnival of make-believe and let's-pretend, and it becomes clear: the Republican Party has become an aggregation of people who prefer to live in a world of fantasy.
AP | Ron Fournier | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics
Mike Huckabee says John McCain is a hero. McCain says Huckabee is a good man. And they both seem to agree on this: Mitt Romney is neither. The Republ...
Boston Globe | Susan Milligan | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics
Mike Huckabee called chief rival Mitt Romney "dishonest'' today for what Huckabee said were gross distortions of his record, and said voters should qu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics
Less than two weeks before the possibly make-or-break New Hampshire primary, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney woke up Wednesday to find another ...
Washington Post | Michael D. Shear and David Broder | Posted 12.23.2007 | Politics
For three decades, the Republican presidential nominating contest has served to unify the national party's coalition of social, economic and foreign p...
Washington Post | Alec MacGillis | Posted 12.22.2007 | Politics
Delivering the journalistic equivalent of a giant lump of coal three days before Christmas, the Concord Monitor editorial board has leveled an extraor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
As this year's congressional session closes out, obstructionism by the Republican minority reached a fever pitch and effectively stymied much of the D...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
Mike Huckabee's not-so-improbable rise has stunned the Republican establishment and has his rivals exhibiting completely aberrant behavior.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
The Bash Hillary mania is so deep and pernicious that it has done the unthinkable for Obama.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics
A reader recently took me to task for an article I wrote a month ago -- "What Will Be The Big Issue A Year And A Day From Now?" His complaint was tha...
Politico.com | Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin | Posted 12.16.2007 | Politics
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), who was on the national Democratic ticket in 2000, will cross the aisle to endorse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) tomorrow,...
The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 12.16.2007 | Politics
Insurgent White House hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is on pace to shatter his own one-day GOP online fundraising record, taking in an eye-popping $3...
The Guardian (U.K.) | Daniel Nasaw | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics
A $1,000 pair of cufflinks from a supporter, tens of thousands of dollars of clothing from a wealthy Little Rock businessman and thousands in gift cer...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Republicans on Thursday, saying they want the Iraq war to drag on and are ignoring the public's priorities. ...
Who is Sarah Palin? Here's a quick rundown of her resumé: she's the former...
Barack Obama Campaign Spokesman Bill Burton responds to John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor...
Watch Obama's speech. Scroll down for report of convention and full text...
I think we will look back at today as the day when...
My favorite part of Hillary Clinton's speech last night was when she admonished her followers not to...
None of my pro-Hillary female friends are falling for this obvious GOP pander....
Photographs Of Sarah Palin, John McCain's Vice President In the December 2007 issue of Vogue: For...
In an unusually heated attack on a veteran political reporter by a cable news...
LOS ANGELES — David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication,"...
Grist reports that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin strongly opposes the Alaskan gas tax, threw money at...
Now that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has chosen his running mate, it's time for him...
Craig Newmark (you may have heard of his list) is blogging at the Democratic...
WASHINGTON — General Motors Corp. said Friday it was recalling 944,000 vehicles because of...
Washington Post | Robert Novak | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics