If you want people to be frightened of Barack Obama because you say he's like Hitler, you have to understand that people don't hate Hitler because he provided governmental health care.
The Idaho Statesman | Dan Popkey | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Blake Hall, a leading figure in Idaho and national politics for 25 years, was fired Monday as a deputy prosecuting attorney in eastern Idaho and has r...
Washington Post | Jason Horowitz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Over Halloween weekend, Dede Scozzafava morphed from a rosy-cheeked Republican mom to a political figure of speech. "My name's a verb now," she said....
David Edwards | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The following article was produced by the Raw Story and written by David Edwards. Since being elected the first African-American RNC chairman, Michae...
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
It's hard to fault Joseph Cao for worrying about his re-election prospects, but let's not mistake self-interest for nobility.
POLITICO | Ben Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The day the Gallup Organization confirmed Mike Huckabee's status as the pollsters' front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the f...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The latest tempest involved New York's 23rd Congressional district, where the Republican candidate was forced out of the race because of her positions on gay and abortion rights.
POLITICO | Carol E. Lee | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be the Republican speaker at the Gridiron Club's Winter Dinner on Dec. 5, the club announced Friday. Gridiron Clu...
Michael Shandrick | Posted 11.05.2009 | Denver
Colorado Springs voters rejected tax ballot measure 2C by a 2 to 1 margin. There's no way to spin it. The Common Good was the big loser on election night.
New York Times | David Herszenhorn | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in ex...
Washington Post | Philip Rucker and Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
A rebounding Republican Party savored victories in two states that President Obama won last year, but as it tries to build momentum toward what GOP Ch...
B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
Tom Suozzi's supposed easy ride to a third term blew out in embarrassing fashion as many voters were not seeing change or results.
Steven Weber | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Since all but jettisoning traditional conservative principles for an unholy fealty to opportunistic disingenuousness, Republicans have evolved into a mono-principled pitbull party in which the only defining characteristic is dumb, lethal loyalty.
The Daily Beast | Max Blumenthal | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
On a night when conservatives expected a landmark victory in New York's 23rd congressional district, the movement's anointed candidate, Doug Hoffman, ...
Mother Jones | Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The tea partiers are launching the revolution. This week. But will anyone actually show up? On Sunday, Rep. Michele Bachmann challenged viewers of Se...
The Wall Street Journal | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
After pumping more than $1 million into an upstate New York House race to elect the Conservative Party's Doug Hoffman, the Club for Growth is on the h...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Th Obama normalcy is a welcome relief from eight years of the Bush administration, but it is only a start. If Obama builds on this start with true reforms, much of the hope will come back.
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
ALBANY, N.Y. — In a Republican Party struggling to find its identity, the surprise withdrawal of the chosen GOP candidate for a New York congres...
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.02.2009 | New York
Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey, has created an election commercial that steals copyright-protected material from Monty Python without permission or credit.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics
Democrats proclaimed on Sunday, that the GOP had become the party of Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber and the ideological fringe after news broke that con...
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama's most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the ...
Joe Trippi | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York
Voters are increasingly seeing themselves as "us" and both parties in Washington as "them." The results next Tuesday will likely demonstrate the voter's frustration with those in power, regardless of party.
tech.yahoo.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Republican leadership in the US House of Representatives unveiled a free application for the Blackberry on Thursday to keep use...
Rob Diamond | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
We are witnessing today an unmistakable emergence of deep fissures within the Republican Party. It begs the question, are we watching the beginning of the end -- the long, slow death of the GOP?
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Lieberman's announcement that he will vote against cloture for a health care bill that includes the public option should surprise nobody. His ideological home is no longer in the Democratic Party.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics