“Minority Leader” on The Daily Caller

Although no one would specifically address House Minority Leader John Boehner’s weekend comments suggesting he would support a compromise on renewing the Bush-era tax cuts, Republican leaders made it clear Monday that they have no interest in compromising on their push to renew tax cuts for all income brackets, including the nation’s wealthiest. (more)

Conservative Latino leaders bristled in response to Nevada Sen. Harry Reid’s statement that he could not understand why Hispanic Americans support Republicans, calling him “intellectually bankrupt” and “out of touch.” (more)

“This is personal but John Thune is somebody that I have nightmares about,” says DNC executive director Jennifer O’Malley Dillon.  O’Malley Dillon has worked for Tim Johnson and Tom Daschle; both men were defeated by John Thune.  Thune ousted Tim Johnson in ’96 for a seat in the House of Representatives and in 2004 Thune unseated then Senate Minority Leader and Leader of the Senate Democrats, Tom Daschle.  The DNC director also noted of Thune: “He has his head down and is doing some policy stuff. [You] just got to start looking at him.”  Thune is also running for re-election this year but has no Democrat or Republican challengers. (more)

The biggest deficit Washington faces today isn’t financial, President Obama argued Monday at the White House. It’s “a lack of faith in the American people.” (more)

U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint said Tuesday he wouldn’t rule out seeking an unspecified Senate leadership position but dismissed recurring speculation that he could challenge Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell as the leader of Senate Republicans. (more)

Republicans are seizing on White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’s admission Sunday that Democrats could lose their House majority to send an unambiguous message to Washington’s lobbyist community: The train is leaving the station, and it’s time to get on board. (more)

Minority Leader John Boehner is two days into a bipartisan beat-down — a small taste of what he can expect should he become speaker of the House and a test of his resilience as a leader. (more)

(AP)  For the third time in as many weeks, Senate Republicans on Wednesday successfully filibustered a bill to continue providing unemployment checks to millions of people. (more)

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor has asked the ethics committee to greenlight a national book tour this August for a new GOP manifesto he’s co-authoring with two younger members of Congress, according to sources familiar with the situation. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans on Thursday defeated Democrats’ showcase election-year jobs bill, including an extension of weekly unemployment benefits for millions of people out of work more than six months. (more)

The Senate’s top Republican now says it’s too early to know if Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will have to overcome a filibuster on her way to a seat on the nation’s highest court. (more)

WASHINGTON – Political novice Rand Paul rode support from tea party activists to victory in Kentucky’s Republican Senate primary Tuesday night, delivering a jolt to the GOP establishment and providing fresh evidence of widespread voter discontent in a turbulent midterm election season. (more)

At first it might seem that Democratic Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and Republican Sen. Bob Bennett (Utah) don’t have much in common ideologically. (more)

Many empty promises have been made to the American people in the past year and half, starting with a promise for “Change in Washington.” Unfortunately, what they’ve seen happening for the past 15 months isn’t the change people were bargaining to see. (more)

End of the financial reform stalemate. Republicans announced that they had achieved resolution of bailout loopholes on the financial regulatory reform bill Wednesday afternoon. “Now that bipartisan negotiations have ended, it is my hope that the majority’s avowed interest in improving this legislation on the Senate floor is genuine and the partisan gamesmanship is over,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, in a statement. After failing to move forward on Monday and Tuesday on the financial reform bill by the exact same vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, scheduled another vote on Wednesday which was promptly defeated as well. The count Wednesday was 56-42 with Senator Nelson, Nebraska Democrat, and Reid voting against the measure. Reid’s “no” vote allows him to bring it up again. A vote later Wednesday, after Democrats threatened to hold an all-night session, succeeded in getting Republicans to drop their filibuster. (more)

Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee says he “want[s] to see” financial reform legislation pass the Senate. But his fellow Republicans in the House fear exactly that. (more)

Top Republicans are gearing up for a showdown against President Obama over the health-care law, which could take place if they win majorities in Congress in November. (more)

The Senate Thursday adjourned until April 12 without extending unemployment insurance benefits — which expire for some jobless Americans at the end of the month — after Democrats rejected Republican Sen. Tom Coburn’s demand that they pay for the aid by redirecting federal funding or cutting spending. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Barack Obama’s newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have to return to the House for final congressional approval. (more)

It was great to see every Republican lined up against the Democrats’ mammoth health care bill. The only consolation to having such bad legislation pass was to have a bright line drawn between Republicans and Democrats for the voters to see in November. (more)