For a self-described amateur, Herman Cain is awfully adept at telling a roomful of professional pols exactly what they want to hear.
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WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders in "early" primary states think they are clever to leapfrog each other in an effort to hold the earliest caucuses and primaries. But they should be careful what they wish for. The evermore absurdly accelerated schedule has three likely outcomes, none of them positive for the...
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WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders in "early" primary states think they are clever to leapfrog each other in an effort to hold the earliest caucuses and primaries. But they should be careful what they wish for. The evermore absurdly accelerated schedule has three likely outcomes, none of them positive for the...
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WASHINGTON -- Two things happened in Monday night's CNN-Tea Party debate. The dynamics of the Republican race became clear: it's Rick Perry against the field. And the contest's central theme became just as clear: let's dismantle as much as we can of the federal government's role. We are in the...
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If you haven't noticed, this is Mitch McConnell's moment. Only instead of being this century's Henry Clay -- Kentucky's "Great Compromiser" -- McConnell is and wants to be the Bluegrass's "Great Dismantler."
WASHINGTON -- By the traditional standards of Washington, the debt ceiling deal is a serviceable one. It ended a series of long nights and anguished speeches in the Capitol, the kind of theatrics legislators think makes them look hardworking and serious. The deal contains impressive numbers in the multiple trillions....
WASHINGTON - Fourth of July dawned grey and muggy in the American capital. Like everything else in Washington, the British Embassy was closed. But the veteran UK ambassador, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, was working. The embassy contains more than a few sacred World War Two relics of the "Special Relationship"...
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PLYMOUTH, Minn. -- Parker's Lake is a pleasant suburban spot near Minneapolis, a nice place to fish in summer and skate in winter. At the picnic pavilion, "brats" were on the grill as local Democrats gathered to raise money and their own spirits, listen to a speech by Sen. Al...
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PLYMOUTH, Minn. -- Parker's Lake is a pleasant suburban spot near Minneapolis, a nice place to fish in summer and skate in winter. At the picnic pavilion, "brats" were on the grill as local Democrats gathered to raise money and their own spirits, listen to a speech by Sen. Al...
I saw Vice President Joe Biden in the Senate late last week and asked him about the chances of passing the gun reform legislation expanding background checks. Usually the soul of confidence and good cheer, Biden gave me a weary smile. "I've got my fingers crossed," he said. That wasn't enough. By a vote of 54-46 -- short of the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster -- the U.S. Senate proved once again that Washington is the place where change goes to die. This wasn't merely the Senate being what the Founding Fathers envisioned: the "cooling saucer" for the hot coffee of legislative emotion. This was the Senate, constricted by its own rules and the laser-focused fire of the NRA, being the slaughterhouse of public will.
