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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.

In the wake of yesterday’s Minnesota three-judge panel court decision that ratified Al Franken’s Senate victory, I see that the InTrade price for Norm Coleman

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.

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

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.

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

The McCain campaign’s robocalls have drawn a lot of attention over the past couple of days. The phone calls play one of several automated messages about Sen.

Last week a coalition of civil rights and reproductive rights advocates filed a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina’s law requiring abortion providers to show women an ultrasound and describe the images in detail four hours before having an abortion, even if the woman does not want to see the images. According to a press release , the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation, Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina and the Center for Reproductive Rights allege that “the new law violates the rights of health care providers and women seeking abortions.” Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the legislation when it reached her desk, but the state Legislature was able to override her veto.

A number of freshman Republican governors were swept into office last November and all of them have seen dramatic drops in public support in the first part of their terms. But Gov. Rick Snyder leads them all in the magnitude of that drop in public support.

Today the Republican presidential ticket went its separate ways as Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin split up for the first time since Palin became the

U.S. Rep. Steve King sat down with journalist Lorena Lopez of Iowa’s LA PRENSA Hispanic newspaper and provided an in-depth view on his immigration stance.

Last month, Onyango Obama, half-brother to the President Obama’s father, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and then held by authorities due to an

Title XIV of H.R. 5136, the House bill authorizing next year’s Defense Department money, doesn’t look like it carries a major legacy item for President Obama.

In a few moments, the Senate will hold a procedural vote setting the stage for final passage of legislation extending unemployment insurance benefits. Leading

Building a Better Ohio – a right-leaning group supporting Senate Bill 5 and Issue 2 – is out with a new campaign ad featuring Kyle Farmer, a teacher in the Liberty-Union Thurston School District. What the ad doesn’t disclose is that Farmer is also chair of the Fairfield County Republican Party, who describes himself on Twitter as a wannabe political operative.

The news on Friday that Blackwater Worldwide (now known as Xe Services) participated in clandestine CIA operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that included

Ah, Alberto Gonzales. After the then-Attorney General presented a slippery account to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2007 of, among other subjects, the

The Arkansas governor-cum-TV host’s poem Fancy Nancy gets at how rote the Republican calls for the Speaker of the House to step down are becoming. Huckabee

During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Andrea Merkel on Tuesday, President Obama suggested that he would like to explore with Congressional leaders the possibility of extending unemployment benefits again. Some of the steps that we took during the lame duck session, the payroll tax, the extension of unemployment insurance, the investment in — or the tax breaks for business investment in plants and equipment — all those things have helped. And one of the things that I’m going to be interested in exploring with the members of both parties in Congress is how do we continue some of these policies to make sure that we get this recovery up and running in a robust way.

Internet junkies and wonks alike may have jumped the gun in looking forward to the new online transparency hyped by House members.

BP CEO Tony Hayward will receive $930,000 when he steps aside as the head of the company, the BBC reported today. According to the BBC: BP chief executive