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Though most of the Republican Party leadership is on record backing Bush-era spending, now they hope standing opposed to spending will be a successful path to victory in the 2010 election cycle.

Republicans are not well-equipped for the coming fight over health care, widely viewed as strong Democratic turf.

Normally, this would be Dave’s turf, but he’s down by the White House checking out the Tea Party festivities. TPM reports that former Club for Growth President

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla

Republican lawyer Barbara Comstock, a candidate for a swing House of Delegates seat in northern Virginia, is holding a fundraiser tomorrow in Washington with a

Lisa De Pasquale breaks the news of Rush Limbaugh’s interview with Sarah Palin, to be conducted in the second hour of his Nov. 17 show. Since the 2008

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the longtime top Democrat on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, has died at 77 years of age. Murtha, the subject of ethics

Last year Minnesota Rep.

Matthew Yglesias writes about the Pakistani safe havens for al-Qaeda: t’s not a good idea to overrate the importance of “safe havens” in terms of

Early on the evening of July 9, a former Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter found herself standing outside the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt in midtown New

Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm has some harsh words for GOP candidates for president Tuesday after Chrysler announced it had paid back its debt to the government. On her Facebook page, Granholm posted the following: “But it wasn’t just Mitt Romney—Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and scores of Republicans opposed the effort to save the American automobile industry.

Speaking to Newark Star-Ledger columnist Bob Braun, Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) goes to the absolute last place the CIA wants to go: Holt said he believes the

The Christian counseling clinic started by Rep.

DES MOINES — A moderate Republican candidate may end up winning the Iowa Caucuses, a long-time political observer says, despite the state’s strong social conservative base of voters. David Yepsen , a former political reporter who spent 34 years at The Des Moines Register, said there’s a very possible scenario in which Mitt Romney wins the caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and the Republican nomination

Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson Jr. and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke faced the firing line at the House Financial Services Committee. The economic turmoil upends presidential politics.

New committee member Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) asks what the State Department can do to bolster its role in international economics. Clinton: Obviously

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, reporting from the McCain campaign trail, provides a transcript of Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policy speech and highlights the

Smelling blood in the water as Democrats made contradictory statements about what a Senate health care reform bill might contain, Republicans are pushing back against a possible compromise.

Four Senate Democrats have called for EPA administrator Stephen Johnson to resign. Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer

To adapt, clumsily, one of the more memorable quips of what used to be called the War on Terror: in Afghanistan, we set up the military command structure that

Joe DiVincenzo styles himself affectionately as Joe D, the Essex County executive who has happily given bipartisan credence to New Jersey Republican Gov.

Sean Naylor at Army Times has an absolutely killer piece that goes into granular detail to explain how Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s team is structuring a program