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Powerful groups and members of Congress that quietly accepted Obama’s infusion of 21,000 new troops this spring are finding their footing to oppose the current one.

File this away in your Screams For Campaign Finance Reform cabinet. Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) is asking the Federal Election Commission for

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) went hunting for Blair to say that the Bush administration didn’t pressure intelligence analysts ahead of the Iraq WMD National

These banks are way too involved in the economy, and they have been way too involved in protesting this bill, one advocate said.

After toxic gasses initially turned them away, two teams of inspectors have re-entered the Upper Big Branch mine this afternoon to begin their investigation

Alex Conant, who until March was the spokesman for the Republican National Committee, has made the smooth transition into insightful conservative punditry. He’s

Even before Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) was sworn in Tuesday, less than a week after his special election victory against a pair of feuding Democrats, pundits

Some thorough legal analysis by Eugene Fidell of Yale, solicited by Adam Serwer. Fidell thinks that Gen. McChrystal’s comments were disrespectful but they

Colorado US Senator Mark Udall on Thursday denounced a move by Republican members of the House seeking to postpone repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy that bars gay soldiers from serving openly.

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson said that Gov

With this morning’s news that employers laid off 524,000 workers in December, at least one prominent economist has some news of his own: The economy is the

Nicolle Wallace — the McCain campaign veteran most despised by the base -- as they believe she was the one leaking damaging lines about Sarah Palin — tells

Mark Ambinder has a post running under the headline, Provocation of The Day: Coleman Could Still Win. He argues: The Minnesota canvassing board doesn’t

While governor, Palin founded a company -- called Pie Spy. The public supports Obama’s Afghanistan dithering. Romney tries to explain away

Jonathan Martin writes about the possible, if unlikely, nightmare scenario of cafe owner Tamyra D’Ippolito succeeding in her fringe campaign to get on the

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is challenging a report by the Washington Examiner’s Kevin Mooney which alleged that the group had

John Gizzi, the extremely plugged-in political editor of Human Events, has a fun story on the troubles facing Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.) after his recent

These are all still open issues, said Lachelier. There are so many moving parts.