If you thought that the filibuster was the only means by which senators could engage themselves in self-indulgent and pointless political warfare, thi...
Paul Abrams | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy
The battle for the soul of the Republican Party is over. Conservatives and the moderate have come together behind a constitutional amendment that would prohibit Congress from passing any bill longer than five pages.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Even if a public option is removed from the Senate's health care legislation, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is urging all Republicans to kill the bill -- l...
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
After a long, messy battle between Senator Jim DeMint and the Obama administration, Senator DeMint removed his holds on two key administration appointees.
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
Kind of sad when you see a Freshman US Senator get appointed and immediately hijacked by lobbying groups who have deeply parochial interests that run against the nation's.
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) was caught off guard when pressed about health care in Washington D.C. earlier this week. In footage of the incident poste...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The two South Carolina Republican chairmen who compared Sen. Jim DeMint to a penny-watching Jew have apologized for the remark. DeMint himself called ...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Why was the GOP so elated with Chicago's Olympic failure? Was it the joy in avoiding the inevitable cost overruns? The security concerns? Or was it enough that Obama had failed?
Think Progress | Lee Fang | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
On Saturday, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) discussed the direction of the GOP in an address to the Republican Northeast Conference in Newport, RI. McC...
Steve Clemons | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago
I suspect that Rep. Schock is going down to check out what is real and what is not in the mess of the Honduras coup and its aftermath -- but Jim DeMint is going down to "meddle."
AP | BEN FOX | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' coup-installed president told a U.S. congressional delegation Friday that full civil liberties would be restor...
David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?
Politico | Posted 09.23.2009 | Technology
Nearly twice as many Republicans as Democrats have accounts on the social networking platform Twitter (101 compared with 57), and the GOP dominates Tw...
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
"I decided to sue when My communications to humans were ignored by the few whose personal agendas were believed by the many," God said.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
If outright lies end up killing health care reform, the Republicans will have won, but, more importantly, the American people will have lost.
New York Times | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Senator Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who predicted that President Obama's effort to overhaul the health care system would become his "Wat...
ThinkProgress.org | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) appeared on Hugh Hewitt's radio show today to continue his near daily rants against President Obama. DeMint, who has repeatedly...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 09.07.2009 | Comedy
There are actual facilities where right wingers can go to practice and hone their yelling and disrupting skills. We have obtained footage from one such facility. Take a look.
Dan Sweeney | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
With Martinez retiring, it will be up to Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running for Martinez's Senate seat, to name a replacement. This puts Crist in an impossible position and is great news for Marco Rubio.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 09.03.2009 | Comedy
It's been a rough couple of years for South Carolinians: Their governor disappeared for a week then admitted to an affair that he wouldn't shut up abo...
thehill.com | Posted 09.02.2009 | Green
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will lead Republican opposition to the popular cash-for-clunkers program in an attempt to block additional funding when it ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics
The White House will "absolutely" work with Congress to extend unemployment benefits for the more than million Americans who could lose that financial...
Tina Dupuy | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Less government is not always good. The private sector is not always first-rate. And free market capitalism does not cure all.
The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on Wednesday fired back at a fellow Republican senator who declared southern conservatives the party's biggest problem. Sen...
Frank Dwyer | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
Wolf Blitzer, the chief flack at Lou Dobbs' birther network, makes CNN one of the pitiful places Republicans can still lie confidently about the Lewin Group.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics