The Daily Caller

GOP leaders’ backroom plot first reported in November

With the clock ticking down, Republican and Democratic leaders are still at odds

‘People really need to back off out there and treat others with respect’

RNC chair begins unofficial effort to win a second term, despite critics in his own party

If Palin is at the top of the ticket in 2012, brace yourself for another hollow heaping of Hope through 2016. The thought of her going toe-to-toe with Obama in a debate is frightening

If you meet someone at the park wearing a pastel tie who deals in derivatives, uses the word “collateralize,” or hedges things with a laptop, probably best to keep ‘em away from the kids

Bipartisan financial reform suffering from residual anger of health-care battle

In the immortal words of Joe Biden (I love that guy), the passage of health care reform is a ‘big fu#*ing deal’. No doubt. But is it a good deal?

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. Let us not accept such a fate

Make no mistake, if Republicans make gains in this year’s midterm elections—as it appears they will—it is due in no part to what they stand for, but rather against

President Obama’s budget director, Peter Orszag, raises a Republican lawmaker’s ideas on how to fix the problem in White House proposals

If Republicans needed evidence that 2010 will hardly be the political cakewalk some expect, President Obama walked reminded them on Friday with an aggressive appearance before pointed questions from House GOP lawmakers

But you probably won’t see all the work that went into it. As of late this afternoon, Luntz was still scrambling to balance his focus group with supporters of Democrat Martha Coakley. “I just lost another one,” Luntz growled over his cell phone from a hotel ballroom at Logan Airport. In the last 24 hours, six Coakley voters have dropped out. By contrast, Luntz hasn’t lost a single supporter of her opponent, Scott Brown