Senator John McCain, whose reelection campaign has adopted a decidedly anti-maverick slant, released a new radio ad Wednesday assailing his primary challenger J.D. Hayworth's proclivity for earmarking while in the House of Representatives.
The 60-second spot features anti-pork crusader Congressman Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, who credits McCain with a career devoted to eliminating wasteful federal spending and aligns Hayworth with big spending Democrats.
"Republicans, including Senator ...
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said Saturday he'll soon decide whether to step down from his post as the liberal dean of the nation's highest court.
In comments posted over the weekend on the website of the Washington Post, Stevens said he "will surely" retire while President Barack Obama is in the White House, calming fears of liberal groups that a future Republican president might ...
After watching with disgust and bluster the party-line passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Americans are wont for substantive bipartisan cooperation. And around what better cause can Washington unite a fractured nation than by excising one of the most revolting poxes on civil society through the passage of federal "Rest in Peace" legislation? Kicking Fred Phelps' ass is just the dose of bipartisanship ...
A majority of Americans hold a generally negative view of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, according to a new CNN poll which found 59 percent of respondents now in opposition to the plan.
After a dozen pro-life Democrats hold-outs lead by Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak caved Sunday to increasing pressure from the White House, the House adopted on a strictly party-line vote the Senate's bill, ...
Senator Tom Coburn Thursday put his colleagues in the lower chamber on advance notice, vowing to torpedo any promises of patronage made by President Barack Obama to wavering House Democrats.
Coburn promised at a health care presser on Capitol Hill today that he would exercise his senatorial prerogative to hold all nominations of vote-switching House Democrats who lose their reelection bids this Fall. The new maneuver ...
Rielle Hunter has broken her years-long silence on the details of her campaign affair with former would-be presidential candidate John Edwards, telling GQ in a candid interview--complete with a bizarre photo shoot featuring Hunter, wearing only pearls and a man's white oxford shirt, atop a bed strewn with her love child's stuffed animals--that she will love Edwards "till death do us part."
Dashing all hopes of ...
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 ...
