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)
Here is all Republicans need to do to ensure the 2012 election is another successful one for them: Get Americans to watch last week’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the threat of Islamist radicalization in the American Muslim community. (more)
As oil prices creep back above $100 a barrel, Senate Democrats are dusting off a plan first unveiled in 2008 to take away federal leases from oil companies that rent federal land but don’t use it for drilling and exploration. (more)
House Democrats unveiled a bill Tuesday to force members of Congress to divulge whether they accept the government health care plan provided for them in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). (more)
The political fortunes of Senate Democrats and President Obama are moving in opposite directions, complicating their efforts to win a titanic battle against Republicans over federal spending. (more)
The Daily Caller has acquired the talking points that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a group with deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, supplied to its supporters as an aid in attacking the Muslim radicalization hearing New York Republican Rep. Peter King held Thursday. Save for Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s incoherent ramblings on Thursday, Democrats’ statements and testimony against King’s hearing, whether intentionally or unintentionally, largely mirrored MPAC’s talking points. (more)
A new report from the left-leaning Center for Public Integrity (CPI) shows union bosses would stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal salaries and Democrats would lose millions of dollars in campaign donations if governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and other states win their budget battles. The new CPI report calls into question union bosses’ and Democratic lawmakers’ true motives in those states, showing that they’re possibly more concerned about losing revenue and personal salary than they are with collective bargaining rights for public sector workers. (more)
The 14 Wisconsin state Senate Democrats who left the state two weeks ago will now face fines of $100 for each day they miss, if they miss two or more days. (more)
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Senate has passed a resolution calling for police to take 14 Democrats into custody for contempt after they fled to Illinois to avoid voting on a union rights bill. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unpopular tax filing requirement for businesses tucked into the new health care law would be repealed under a bill overwhelmingly passed by the House Thursday. (more)
Twenty-nine percent of likely voters would blame Democrats for a government shutdown, compared to 23 percent who would hold Republicans responsible, according to a new poll conducted for The Hill. (more)
The Dems’ Dead Agenda: “Is comprehensive immigration reform likely to be addressed this year … ?” Mark Krikorian: ” … there is no possibility …” (more)
A couple protests were held over the weekend. The demonstrators were yelling and screaming something about solidarity, supporting the Wisconsin teachers’ unions and the state’s 14 Democrats who ran away to Illinois. Or it could have been about abortion rights. All artist Ray Voide knew was that they weren’t a very art-friendly crowd. (more)
URBANA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois, known for its wayward politicians and back-door political dealings, is in the odd position of having become the Switzerland on the Prairie as lawmakers fleeing votes in Wisconsin and Indiana take refuge in its borders. (more)
Democratic strategists believe their Tea Party moment has arrived. (more)
























