Things are really looking bad for ole’ Newt the adulterous Gingrich: Newt Gingrich’s campaign manager and numerous other key aides have resigned together, a strong blow to his hopes for the Republican presidential nomination. Gingrich press spokesman Rick Tyler told The Associated Press that he’s resigned along with campaign manager Rob Johnson, senior strategists and […]
The right refuses to buy the fact that Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account may have been hacked in order to send out a lewd photo. As matter of fact the entire incident revealed a huge vulnerability in yFrog, the photosharing service the image appeared on, and the right still refuses to accept it. Their reason for […]
So the party of “financial responsibility” is going to spend about $1.1 million just on reading the Constitution on the House floor: The amount I get is nearly $1.1 million. $1,071,872.87, to be exact, though of course this is more back-of-the-envelope than exact. When one chamber of Congress is in session but not working, we […]
If the Republicans win back the House then they plan on letting us relive the bad part of the 90’s: If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if […]
This will be the dominating news story for the next week: The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain his controversial comments about colleagues in a recent interview, an Obama administration official said Tuesday. The official says Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who has since issued an apology for his comments, has […]
Just got this breaking news alert from the Washington Post: Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, fell ill at the witness table during a Senate hearing Tuesday and had to be escorted from the room. Petraeus was listening to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) express concern about the direction […]
It took the President himself going after Mitch McConnell, but finally he has some of his nominees confirmed: The Senate confirmed a huge group of administration nominees on Thursday, following a tense exchange between President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). At a White House meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders on Tuesday, […]
This tweet from Luke Russert seems to indicate so: GOP aides telling me it was a mistake to allow cameras into Obama’s QA with GOP members. Allowed BO to refute GOP for 1.5 hours on TV It might have been a mistake politically for the GOP, but it was a big win for America. It’s […]
Just in time for the next election cycle: The Senate Ethics Committee has begun issuing subpoenas to those caught up in the sex and lobbying scandal surrounding Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and his former aides, Doug and Cindy Hampton. Several people close to the scandal said they received document subpoenas on Thursday from the committee […]
It sounds like Bush is going to come out of hiding: Nearly 10 months after leaving office, former President George W. Bush plans to emerge from self-imposed political hibernation on Thursday as he starts a new public policy institute to promote some of the domestic and international priorities of his presidency. You mean the very […]