CAMBRIDGE, Md. — House Democrats will win the House in November, swinging the gavel back into the hands of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Vice President Biden predicted Friday. (more)
Tuesday, the day that President Barack Obama will deliver the State of the Union address, also marks the 1,000th day since Senate Democrats last proposed a budget plan. (more)
Conservative activist Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani, founder and chairman of Raging Elephants, told the Daily Caller that abortion in the United States amounts to “genocide … of African American babies.” And he sent liberals on MSNBC into fits of horror Wednesday after he spoke to a Houston tea party rally and called Democrats “racists” and “the party of the Ku Klux Klan.” (more)
A veteran Democratic political operative says the Obama administration’s decision to embrace the Occupy Wall Street protests “may cost them the 2012 election.” (more)
Liberal Comedy Central host Jon Stewart told Rolling Stone magazine that he has trouble blaming tea partiers for the summer debt ceiling debacle. (more)
Chris Matthews, a Democrat who favors civility when it suits him, has quipped that Texas governor Rick Perry is “Bull Connor with a smile.” This is the “Hardball” punch line to an MSNBC campaign of vilification against Perry, built around deceptively edited clips designed to support the argument that the Texas governor and presidential candidate is a “racist.” (more)
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee dubbed a new Transportation Security Administration behavior-detection program set to begin Monday as “chat downs.” (more)
In a new Gallup poll released Friday, a majority of registered voters say they would vote for a Democrat over a Republican if the 2012 congressional elections were held today. (more)
Gov. Rick Perry, a no-apologies conservative known for slashing government spending and opposing all tax increases, is about as Republican as you can get. (more)
Americans love explosions — and no explosion is more exciting than the one you’ve made yourself. (more)
Top Democrats in New Hampshire and Massachusetts are ripping former Gov. Mitt Romney’s record on job creation, pointing to a series of disquieting statistics about the Massachusetts economy while Romney was at that state’s helm. (more)
The Democrats’ “super” PAC launched a six-figure ad campaign Monday, just months after accepting sizable donations from wealthy liberals including that scorn of the right, George Soros. (more)
Republicans should welcome the Democrats’ proposal to eliminate tax “subsidies” provided to oil companies. Then they should promptly attach a measure that would block all federal funds from flowing to Planned Parenthood. (more)
President Barack Obama has agreed to negotiate a deal to cut spending in return for a vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, House Speaker John Boehner suggested shortly after a meeting with the president at the White House Wednesday. (more)
House Republican Study Committee chairman Jim Jordan said in a statement that he won’t support the compromise continuing resolution hammered out between House GOP leadership, Senate Democrats, and the White House: (more)
It’s the kind of party where the guest of honor is expected not to show. (more)
President Barack Obama is mimicking Bill Clinton as he downplays many progressive priorities in his run towards the 2012 election. (more)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the national debate over government funding personal in a floor speech Friday, arguing in part that Republicans were putting up a fight because they “want” to take away his wife and daughters’ access to health care. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Time growing short, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders failed to reach agreement Thursday night on a compromise to cut spending and head off a midnight Friday government shutdown that no one claimed to want. (more)
Bowing to pressure from Senate Democrats, the company that makes Blackberry smartphones will stop hosting an application that lets drivers know where police set up checkpoints for random drunk driving tests. (more)

























