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More than halfway through a panel discussion before Republican rainmakers in Aspen, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, while extolling his own foreign policy credentials, referred to himself “as the president.” Recognizing his mistake, he repeated it, this time with a head-bobbing cackle straight out of former President George W

With the House last night passing its health care reconciliation bill, the measure moves to the Senate this week, where Democratic leaders are claiming they’ve

The Democrats’ bill placing the tobacco industry under the oversight of the Food and Drug Administration is on its way to the White House, having passed the

President Obama, in his first remarks on Haiti, said that his national-security team worked overnight to prepare to assist the Caribbean neighbor recover from

I feel compelled to link to The Onion’s hilarious lede today. From its awesome bit of fake news, entitled, Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social

The firestorm continues surrounding new recommendations that women screen later in life and less frequently for breast cancer, with Rep. Debbie Wasserman

Second Amendment rights remain high on the list of issues Republicans are still nervous about when it comes to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. But no

The drumbeat for stricter immigration enforcement sounds like a war chant to some. In an editorial published Thursday, The Christian Science Monitor opines that enforcement-first policies could drive America’s small family farms out of business. From the Monitor: Enforcement-only immigration policies will further devastate immigrant communities, ravage labor-intensive agriculture, and take away countless jobs beyond the farm sector.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who lost the Alaska Republican Senate primary to Tea Party darling Joe Miller last month, is calling on the oil industry for

If they had been pulling out all the stops and working as hard as possible to get as many nominations as fast possible, said former associate counsel in the Bush White House Rachel Brand, they might have done the same as us.

As stated in Article V, Section 7 of the New Mexico Constitution, “when the governor travels outside New Mexico’s borders . . . the lieutenant governor shall act as governor.” Governor Susana Martinez recently told the Albuquerque Journal that she’d like to amend this 1948 amendment in such a way that she would retain all the authority of her office when traveling outside the state

Organized labor is continuing the push back against moves by the GOP-dominated state legislature to erode union rights in the state.

In a 200-page complaint filed in federal court Monday, dozens of former government contractors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan accuse their old employers and

The release of the Fed’s 2004 transcripts and my initial post have ginned up a number of posts and stories -- including ones by Ryan Grim, Yves Smith, Matt

Politico’s Jeanne Cummings has a fine analysis of the GOP’s 1993 all over again strategy for opposing President Obama and the Democrats, even if she assumes

Media snark from Milbank and Pitney. Learning to love from Sanford’s romance. Conyers and Conyers: partners in crime? Pseudo-facts good enough for

President Obama’s 2012 Department of Homeland Security budget proposal favors immigration enforcement increases for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE.

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said it was a mistake holding a Valentine’s Day-Eve hearing into whether

Alexi Giannoulias, a Democratic candidate for an Illinois Senate seat, has a fun new website at 700billionreasons.com. Giannoulias is lobbying for Congress to

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll finds that about half of Americans approve of the way President Obama handled the Gulf oil spill, now that the flow of oil has