New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa may not be ready to leave Washington, hinting in an interview he may rescind his resignation, scheduled for 5 P.M. Monday.
On his weekly radio show, Massa, one of thirty-nine Democrats who voted against last year's health care bill, said House leadership was orchestrating a public relations campaign against him for the sake of accelerating his resignation and lowering the ...
While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be reticent to drain the swamp and admonish Representative Charley Rangel for recent ethics violations, President Barack Obama has, in typical Obama fashion, thrown the scandal-plagued New York Democrat under the bus, reports the New York Daily News. In recent days, a growing choir of Democrats have begun echoing GOP demands that Rangel surrender his chairmanship of the powerful ...
An unusual fundraising email Wednesday greeted the inboxes of supporters of the National Republican Congressional Campaign. In an email "from" Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "naive" Republicans were instructed to stop fretting over rising unemployment figures because "Democrats are in control now."
"We are creating a dependence on the government and we are succeeding," the email, dripping with an rare degree of sarcasm for beltway correspondence, ...
Former Governor of Virginia Doug Wilder Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to remove Tim Kaine--a fellow member of the Virginia Governors club who once earned Wilder's endorsement--from his post atop the Democratic National Committee.
"[A] spate of recent losses in races that Democrats should have won underscores what has been obvious to me for a long time," Wilder wrote in a column for Politico. "The Chairmanship ...
President Barack Obama Friday tapped Democratic National Committee member Tim Purdon as North Dakota's next United States Attorney, landing the president in the same political minefield once occupied by Democratic Senator Max Baucus after he nominated his girlfriend for a similar federal post.
A veteran Democratic bundler, Purdon found a unique affinity with trial lawyer John Edwards, on whose campaign he was a state chairman. According ...
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels today promised to remain neutral in his state's upcoming Republican Senate primary, but admitted to being "startled" by Coats' surprise candidacy.
Former Senator Dan Coats is "just alarmed about the country, I can tell you that from talking to him," Daniels said of Coats, who contacted the governor Monday about his potential challenge to Democratic Senator Evan Bayh.
Many Republicans criticized Coats' candidacy ...
Court documents relating to the 2005 divorce of embattled Illinois Democratic Lieutenant Governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen surfaced Wednesday, alleging the Chicago business man was prone to regular fits of rage--likely side-effects of his abuse of anabolic steroids--and forced himself sexually on his ex-wife.
While still married, which the woman characterized as "pretty unbearable," Cohen took "injectable anabolic steroids, including but not limited to Winstrol, Cretine, ...
Governor Patrick Quinn (D-IL) Wednesday expressed concern over his running-mate's history of domestic violence, telling reporters that the Democrats' nominee for lieutenant governor "should step aside," barring a compelling explanation for his actions.
Scott Lee Cohen, who allegedly threatened his prostitute girlfriend by brandishing a knife and throwing her against a wall, Tuesday won the Democratic Party's nomination for lieutenant governor, edging out five other contenders ...
What Chicago election is complete without elements of domestic violence, prostitution and tax evasion?
A Chicago pawnbroker who financed his campaign with nearly $2 million of his own wealth, Scott Lee Cohen Tuesday won the Democratic Party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor. But with new details of Cohen's sordid past emerging today, Democratic primary voters will soon be wishing they had given his five rivals a second ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has squandered over $101,000 tax dollars on "in-flight services" on congressional delegations since 2008, according to new documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Expenditures on Pelosi-led CODELs, the group's report shows, include thousands for liquor, beer and wine. Receipts show purchase of Johnny Walker, Grey Goose, Beefeater, Maker's Mark, Courvoisier, Dewars, Bombay Sapphire ...
Aides to President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel apologized to leaders of the special needs community after a recent screed involving the mentally disabled. At a White House meeting, Emanuel reportedly scolded a group of liberal strategists for attacking wayward Democrats over health care, dismissing the suggestion the White House alienate moderate Blue Dogs as "f--ing retarded."
Sarah Palin, the ...
Senator Arlen Specter and his brash temperament are back in the news.
The incorrigible Republican-turned-Democrat attended a Pennsylvania Progressive forum Saturday, opposite his primary opponent Representative Joe Sestak, where he stormed the stage prematurely during Sestak's closing remarks.
Explaining why he is best suited both professional and politically for the post, Sestak was unexpectedly greeted by Specter, prompting a moderator to bluntly ask the senator to "get ...
The latest senior aide to bolt from the Republican National Committee headquarters, national press secretary Gail Gitcho is leaving to oversee Senator-elect Scott Brown's communications operation, it was reported Sunday by CNN.
Gitcho, who held communications posts in the campaigns of John McCain and Mitt Romney, is the third senior communications aide to depart in two months, fueling speculation of mid-cycle internal strife.
Gitcho is following in the footsteps ...
A kinder, gentler year for Republicans, 2009 witnessed the flipping of two governorships--one in the newly-designated purple commonwealth of Virginia--and the Senate seat long-held by the late Ted Kennedy. The prospective 2012 Republican contenders, too, have capitalized on the base's renewed vigor, with early front-runners pulling in--and dolling out--millions for their political action committees.
Mitt Romney's Free and Strong political action committee raised just shy of ...
