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As they campaigned together across Virginia on Thursday and Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele praised Robert F. McDonnell, the state's GOP gubernatorial candidate, as an innovative leader.
Rush Limbaugh realizes you don’t become America’s most popular radio talk-show host without having the hide of an elephant. And he’s long subscribed to a theory: His 21 million listeners know him and love him, and the other 280 million Americans, well, they don’t pay the bills.
In the latest issue of Vogue magazine, the wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says that finding out about her husband’s affair with an Argentine woman felt like “punches to the gut.” Regarding the future of their marriage, she said, “The ball is in his court.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday urged some 2,000 Republican party loyalists to stand up for GOP principles but to be inclusive as the party tries to retake the majority.
The conservative vs. moderate split threatening to rupture the Republican Party played out across the airwaves Sunday, with Colin Powell and Tom Ridge denouncing shrill and judgmental voices they say are steering the GOP too far right. Karl Rove challenged Powell to lay out his vision and "back it up" by helping elect Republicans.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met with the American Legion on Friday to apologize for a right-wing extremism report written by her agency, and the veterans group walked away from the meeting mollified.
The freshest new voice of the Republican Party comes at you with the fervor of an evangelical preacher and the fast delivery of a tobacco auctioneer. His message is clear, his convictions rock-solid, his self-assurance in Rush Limbaugh territory.
It has been just six weeks since their party lost control of the White House, but plenty of Republicans are already talking about a political comeback.
- The Republican National Committee released the following excerpts from the Republican address, entitled "Americans Can Do Anything," that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will deliver immediately following President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress:
After losing the presidential contest in November, as well as additional House and Senate seats, the Republican Party can at least find comfort in this one fact: Democrats were in this same position just four years ago.
Out of power, Republicans appear to be retreating to familiar old ground. They're becoming deficit hawks again.
- Although the weeks of congressional wrangling over the fate of the Detroit automakers ended in a collapsed rescue plan, a new political star emerged from the fray: Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
A Louisiana senator is staunchly opposing legislation that would give struggling U.S. automakers $14 billion in emergency loans.
- The 2010 elections may seem to exist only in the distant future, but candidates are already raising money and plotting possible strategies.
- Three days before he won the presidential election, Sen. Barack Obama stood in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, and told a crowd of supporters, "We need to get beyond the old ideological debates that divide us between left and right."
When Washington state voters opened their mail-in ballots and stepped into voting booths, they had this choice for governor:
NEW YORK - The Republicans who survived Tuesday night’s Democratic electoral onslaught might bravely insist that “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States.
OMAHA, Nebraska - It’s 10 o’clock the Saturday morning before Election Day. At the Obama field office in a strip mall in Omaha, Neb., Obama regional field director Charlie Ellsworth is teaching 16 Obama supporters how to do door-to-door canvassing.
- There are a number of smart election previews out there.
- A number of folks will view the polling memo from John McCain's pollster, Bill McInturff, as nothing more than rose-colored spin in order to prop up the Republican mindset in the days before Election Day.
The Republican National Committee tapped a $5 million line of credit Tuesday as part of a renewed effort to help GOP senators facing re-election difficulties, the party's chairman said Tuesday.
The Republican National Committee is taking out a $5 million line of credit to help Senate Republican incumbents who are facing re-election difficulties.
Democrats of all stripes have begun to express anger at Joe Lieberman's repeated threats to join Republicans to filibuster health care reform legislation. HISTORY
NY-23 was supposed to be the launching of Conservatism in mainstream America.
George W. Bush makes secret visit to mourning families at Fort Hood; Laura Bush goes too"Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood.
Sarah Palin and the Dysfunctional Political Class: She may have been one of the most qualified members of a presidential ticket in a decade.The frenetic hostility to Sarah Palin, even by many on the Republican side, is unnerving, because her qualifications to be president are objectively better than those of almost anyone who has been on the national ticket over the past decade.
Independent Voters and Empty Explanations: VA and NJ election analysisWhy did Democrats lose in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday? Because independent voters moved against them, say the pundits. This is true, insofar as it goes; Democrats lost independents nearly 2:1 in the gubernatorial race in Virginia, and by a 25-point margin in New Jersey.
SNL Mocks Fox's Election Coverage""Saturday Night Live" opened last night with a sketch lampooning Fox News's election coverage.
Abortion Was at Heart of Wrangling WASHINGTON — It was late Friday night and lawmakers were stalling for time. In a committee room, they yammered away, delaying a procedural vote on the historic health care legislation.
You could buy a lot of health care for $400,000 - we'll get back to that.
Joseph Cao: Health Care's LONE Republican Supporter Is Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao (With Video)One Republican lawmaker out of 177 crossed party lines to support the health care reform legislation offered by Democrats.
Bribes Work Democrats have bribed AARP and AMA to endose this unconstitutional bill H,B,3962
Glenn Beck Was Right!!!I never thought I would have to admit this, but Glenn Beck totally nailed it when he said that Obama is a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white people and/or white culture.
Michele Bachman, explainedThe Minnesota Republican reveals her sources of information, and suddenly everything's a little clearer
10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care BattleWild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Facebook | My Links"I am a democrat ... aren't I?" This is your typical political discussion in coffee shoppes across America and a conversation I over heard "I don't like Sarah Palin either" he replied as he picks his nose and lifted up from the seat to discharge gas.
Jon Stewart's Brilliant Glenn Beck Parody "Jon Stewart has done it again, and this time he even brought out his acting chops. In what will probably become a historic Glenn Beck impression, Stewart uses Beck's recent appendicitis operation to concoct a conspiracy theory of his own.
Limbaugh's fetish? Mentions "anal poisoning" 13 times in 2 yearsMSNBC's Keith Olbermann named Rush Limbaugh one of the world's worst people Thursday evening for saying that an HBO special about President Barack Obama should get "anal poisoning."
Grassley Defends Censorship Amendment, Says Webb Commission Should "Do What We Tell Them To Do"Sen. Charles Grassley, author of the censorship amendment to the National Criminal Justice Commission Act, was asked about his anti-speech tendencies by a reporter on a conference call today. The full transcript is below, but here's the most interesting part of what Sen.
GOP alternative health care plan allows insurers to continue denying coverage for pre-existing conditionsThe Republican plan tries to address that by requiring that the pool "must limit the pool premiums to no more than 150 percent of the average premium for applicable standard risk rates in that state." In other words, it might cost people with pre-existing conditions 50 percent mo …
Thousands of Right-Wingers Rally at Capitol to Hear Lies About Health-Care Reform, Courtesy of Bachmann and GOP Leaders"Days before a health bill is expected to pass the House, Republicans rallied their flock with the help of FOX News, Michele Bachmann and leading conservative groups."
Rep. Alan Grayson: How the Republicans Failed to Cut Off My Health Care SpeechLast night, the House Republicans tried, and failed, to squelch a speech that I gave on health care. I intend to vote for the health care bill because that bill saves lives.
Teabagger Fail: Rep Todd Akin (R-MO) Crows That The Pledge Of Allegiance "Drives Liberals Crazy" But Manages To Forget The Words When He Leads ItRep. Todd Akin of Missouri today led a crowd of Teabaggers in front of the Capitol in a rousing recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. He said it "drives liberals crazy" when people say the Pledge. Well, our skin doesn't burn or anything when you say it aloud, Rep.
We "broke the law," admits CIA agent convicted of renditionOne of the Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court for her part in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric by CIA operatives has acknowledged they "broke the law" and complained she was given insufficient protection by her superiors in Washington.
Attack of the PalinitesThe Palinites -- because of her star power, she's the de facto leader of the movement at this point, so it's fair to name it after her -- backed a third-party conservative named Doug Hoffman. Scozzafava pulled out and threw what support she had to Owens, who won by four points.
Michele Bachmann's Tea-Partier "Super Bowl of Freedom"Their main grievance was health care reform—some periodically broke out into chants of "Kill the bill!"—but many protesters saw reform as a part of a larger problem of government overreach: the stimulus, bailouts, and proposed cap and trade legislation.
House Minority Leader Confused (Makes Fool Out Of Himself) About Location Of Phrase "We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident..."House Minority Leader John Boehner was fired up and ready to go at the Tea Party rally today. He even held up his pocket copy of the Constitution, pledging to "stand here with our Founding Fathers, who wrote in the pre-amble: 'We hold these truths to be self evident ..."
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