“Democratic Party” on The Daily Caller

Is Washington gridlock the GOP’s fault? That’s what Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution claim in a recent Washington Post op-ed. According to them, Republicans have become “ideologically extreme” and are blocking needed bipartisan reforms. (more)

With the spectacle of Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad being forced to back down on actually offering a budget, it’s clearer than ever that Senate Democrats are pursuing a deliberate strategy of doing nothing, blocking House-passed bills and giving President Obama a free hand to use regulators and bureaucrats to push his agenda forward. The Senate has already failed to stand up to the EPA’s back-door cap-and-trade energy taxes and the FCC’s self-created legally dubious power to regulate the Internet. Next week we’ll find out if there are any Senate Democrats willing to stand up to the NLRB bureaucrats who are imposing the failed card-check legislation in bite-size pieces via bureaucratic decree. (more)

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue admitted late Tuesday evening that she has known about the allegations of sexual harassment within her state’s Democratic Party for at least several months. (more)

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue had a message on Tuesday for reporters asking about sexual harassment allegations roiling her state’s party: “Get over it.” (more)

North Carolina Democratic Party executive director Jay Parmley resigned Sunday in the wake of allegations that he sexually harassed one of his former communications staffers. (more)

A top North Carolina Democratic Party official has reportedly been identified as the accused perpetrator in a sexual harassment claim made by a former staffer. (more)

Democratic National Committee member Pat Cotham promoted a “Hoodie Rally” that she said took place at Marshall Park in Charlotte, N.C. at 6 p.m. on Thursday. (more)

In the 2012 presidential election, the Republican candidate will likely face the long-rumored, Obama-Hillary super ticket, predicts longtime political guru and Bill Clinton administration veteran Robert Reich. (more)

A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — filled when the Department of Justice barred the city of Kinston, N.C. from holding nonpartisan elections — reasoning that lack of access to party affiliation would discriminate against minority voters who otherwise wouldn’t know how to find Democratic candidates on a ballot. (more)

New York Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez admitted she did not know what Operation Fast and Furious was at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus event on Tuesday. (more)

The Democrats’ decade-long strategy of hyping embryo stem cell research crashed into a hard fact on Nov.15. That’s when Geron Corp., the world’s leading embryo research company, announced it was closing down its much-touted stem cell program, despite the guarantee of more government aid from Democratic-affiliated sources. (more)

In a Sunday evening interview on MSNBC, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews spoke candidly not just of his allegiance to the president’s agenda, but also of the frustrations many on the professional left are feeling with the administration’s lack of leadership. (more)

Failure by Congress’ debt-cutting super committee to recommend $1.2 trillion in savings by Wednesday is supposed to automatically trigger spending cuts in the same amount to accomplish that job. (more)

Bill Burton, the former White House deputy press secretary, left his post earlier this year to focus on raising money for President Obama’s re-election campaign. While he set an initial fundraising goal of $100 million, his results to date have been less than impressive. (more)

President Obama and his Democratic allies made two key political missteps in recent years, according to former president Bill Clinton in a new book to be released Tuesday. (more)

Who’s benefiting from the Occupy Wall Street protests? Wall Street. (more)

“Occupy Wall Street” has captured global attention and become the darling of the world press. CNN hosts a “Meet the 99%” Web page advertising the movement on CNN.com. MSNBC’s praise of OWS has approached religious awe. Yet for all the attention, many assertions about the movement are flatly inaccurate. (more)

Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin told the Chicago Tribune that if the 2012 election is a “referendum” on President Barack Obama, then Democrats are “in trouble.” (more)

The Occupy Wall Street protests have attracted significant support from Democratic Party politicians. But two of the country’s most significant third parties say that the message of the protests is that the two-party system is broken. (more)

The top 10 ZIP codes for Democratic donors include a narrow set of four D.C. locations, two New York neighborhoods and two L.A. locations. (more)