Michele Bachmann is making her GOP colleagues uncomfortable these days. Last week she started the Congressional Tea Party Caucus – the latest litmus test on how devoted members really are to the fledgling movement. Indiana’s Mike Pence, chairman of the Republican Conference, was quickly to sign up. Not so quick were House Minority …
The Senate Judiciary Committee in the next few minutes will report out the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Her passage through the committee is all but assured given that Democrats control it by a margin of 12-7. The only bit of news this vote will yield is whether or not South Carolina Senator Lindsey …
The week began with a nasty food fight between White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. While on Meet the Press with David Gregory on Sunday, Gibbs made the mistake of conceding that Dems could lose the House in November.
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As Alex wrote yesterday, TIME has a new poll out. Having focused earlier this week on the immigration debate, I found the questions on the Arizona law particularly interesting. Some 60% of respondents said they liked the Arizona law versus 35% who didn’t like it. That said, 54% said they believe the law would lead to harassment of …
Yesterday when Speaker Pelosi went to the White House, following a tense few days of family feuding after White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ remarks on Sunday that Dems could lose the House, she had a series of demands. Leveraging her caucus’ outrage – aired to reporters yesterday – Pelosi wanted more money and more help …
This time.com story I have out today grew from conversation after conversation on the Hill with Democratic aides who were flabbergasted at the Obama Administration’s focus on immigration reform. “Like a dog with a bone — a bad bone,” one aide said to me. “It’s just crazy – it makes no sense,” said another. Most of them fretted about …
Washington is expressing collective shock – shock, I tell you – this morning over Sarah Palin’s second quarter 2010 FEC report. Might she be running for president in 2012??
I’ve always through Palin would run – though it flies in the face of the MSM group think inside the Beltway. How could she run without the staff? The …
Many people, myself included, have written about why 2010 isn’t exactly like 1994. Here is another reason: people actually know who Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are, and not in a good way.
Back in 1994, who knew anything about House Speaker Tom Foley or Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell? Voters certainly didn’t. But in the age …
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I believe Alex will have more to say about this later but here’s Sarah Palin’s newest web video. Her words are mostly excerpted from a speech she gave to the pro-life group, the Susan B. Anthony List. She talks about her “Mama Grizzlies” and “Pink Elephants” stampeding into …
John McCain became the latest GOP senator to announce his opposition to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. In a searing op-ed in today’s USA Today, McCain, who is in a tough reelection race, said “Kagan fails.” His reasoning? Her handling of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell as Dean of Harvard Law School.
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It’s hard to believe that a year ago I was watching a photographer shoot Sarah Palin on her dock in front of her Wasilla home for our cover story on her. And given the weather today — it’s 100+ degrees in Washington — a pleasant Alaska summer is looking pretty nice right now. TIME’s Feifei Sun has a look at Palin’s eventful year. An …
Remember how Jim Bunning blocked those unemployment benefits in March and everyone was outraged? Then when Tom Coburn did it in April, the outrage was a little less? With voter worries about deficit spending mounting, Republicans are now seeing benefits to blocking the extension of unemployment benefits unless they are paid for. …
The memorial service is in full swing in Charleston. Meanwhile, our TIME colleague Michael Grunwald has his own goodbye to Senator Robert Byrd which looks at the West Virginia Democrat’s life without the rose colored glasses that always come with the idiom: Don’t speak ill of the dead. Let’s just say, upon reading this Grunwald’s mom …
