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I didn’t watch President George W. Bush’s valedictory speech. As it happens, I was at my gym, using one of the elliptical machines with the personal TV screens.

If there was any doubt that 2008 was the Democrats’ best chance of taking out Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) -- their effort was hobbled by a third-party

Meeting with a small group of reporters in her Denver office, Congresswoman Diana DeGette said the right wing of the Republican Party is not doing what voters sent them to Washington for. “Their agenda has nothing to do with jobs,” she said, noting that Republicans seem hell-bent on passing a series of laws to attack women’s reproductive health, public broadcasting and climate change science among other things. “It’s frustrating.

With the Congressional battle over revising the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ending in a victory for President George W. Bush last week, a

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack met with rural producers and community leaders at Glenwood High School Thursday to hear their concerns and provide USDA assistance program information. Vilsack assured those gathered that the U.S.

The Institute of Medicine’s recent recommendation to the U.S. Department of Health to include birth control services in a list of preventive services for

A bewildered Marc Lynch tries to make sense of Vice President Joe Biden’s comment yesterday that Israel can determine for itself -- it’s a sovereign nation --

When Senate Republicans last week blocked Democrats’ efforts to bail out General Motors and Chrysler, which say they’re near bankruptcy, the White House was

Following a story in The Washington Post yesterday about the large number of oil industry lobbyists who formerly worked in the federal government, Michael

Five GOP candidates for president offered very different assessments of the federal governments’ wind energy tax credit and renewable fuel standard during a forum Tuesday morning in Pella. Those two government initiatives have paid big dividends for the Hawkeye State, spurring major growth in the wind and renewable fuels industries

Via Alex Koppelman, I see that Orly Taitz has unleashed another incoherent, vicious rant in response to the demolition of the forged Kenyan birth certificate

Public Policy Polling (PPP) posted an interesting follow-up to its poll showing Texas Gov. Rick Perry running tied with his Democratic opponent Bill White.

What better indicator of the glasnost and perestroika that have been sweeping through his administration than Gov. Rick Scott actually outlasting reporters at today’s post-cabinet press conference? # A day after inviting a few dozen reporters into his office for coffee and doughnuts, Scott answered everyone’s questions and then asked for more

The soap opera continues ... The secretary of the Senate this morning refused to seat Roland Burris, the former Illinois attorney general picked by embattled

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A boisterous, if not outright angry, crowd of about 100 people gathered in downtown today to protest government spending and high

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D) is a pretty even-keeled, middle-of-the-road kind of guy. It was the Montana moderate who spent months tweaking

State Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) was announced as a speaker at a Lansing rally Wednesday organized by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who made headlines when he threatened to burn a Koran on his church property earlier this year, but his office denies the accuracy of that announcement. His spokesperson tells MLive.com that the controversial GOP lawmaker will not be speaking at or appearing at the event: “He will not be at the event,” Chris Jones, an aide in Agema’s office, told MLive.com

Mike Mandel posts a useful chart showing where college-educated young folks are getting jobs: The big picture is that government and professional

Now, we’ve said some dumb stuff in our time. Many of of the comments occurred in the 24-hour Burger King while an undergrad in Evanston, Ill. after a