DLC: RIP
It really shouldn’t be a surprise that that Democratic Leadership Council is on its last legs.
It really shouldn’t be a surprise that that Democratic Leadership Council is on its last legs.
Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.
After a fairly bad 2010, Barack Obama is starting off 2011 in a very good position.
Sarah Palin was “interviewed” by Sean Hannity last night. I doubt she helped herself.
Now that Republicans have the House, wouldn’t they be better off playing nice?
There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.
It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.
Why is the press gushing over routine movement in White House team?
Chicago’s next mayor will be either Rahm Emanuel or Carol Moseley Braun.
President Obama likes to go back to his Hawaii home town and live like a regular guy for a few days.
President Obama and Hillary Clinton top Gallup’s lists of Most Admired Americans.
There’s plenty of good news for Barack Obama in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Are Marco Rubio, Haley Barbour, and Mike Huckabee the favorites to win the White House?
A new poll shows that the American public is discontented, nervous about the economy, not entirely sure they can trust the new GOP majority in Congress, and has no idea what it wants from Washington. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Bernie Sanders took to the floor of the Senate yesterday to rail against President Obama’s tax cut deal. It was history in the making, but it’s not clear that it actually accomplished anything.
Peter Orszag, President Obama’s first budget director, is headed to Citigroup and a multimillion dollar salary.
Several smart center-left commentators argue that President Obama is not triangulating. At least one argues there’s no such thing.
President Obama’s press conference yesterday, bitterly railing against Democrats in the Congress for being “purist” and “sanctimonious,” is brilliant triangulation.
California’s Proposition 8 faced another legal test in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, and the day didn’t seem to go well for opponents of same-sex marriage.
According to a new Gallup poll, President Obama is not only less popular than George W. Bush, but the only president from the last half century less popular is Dick Nixon.
The prospective Republican field for 2012 is dismal. Then again, it always is.
Another Federal Judge dismisses a Constitutional challenge to the health care reform law, and demonstrates just how unlikely it is that any of the lawsuits against the law will be successful.
Is President Obama’s Federal pay freeze a sign that he’s moving to the right, or just pointless symbolism?
President Obama’s plan to free federal employee pay is getting praised by Republicans but is wildly unpopular among progressive activists.
After 1 1/2 years in office, President Obama has yet to grant a single request for a pardon or clemency, continuing a thirty year trend in which the Presidential pardon power has nearly fallen in to disuse.
The Republican talking point that lowering taxes lowers spending and raising taxes increases spending is denied by reality.
The incoming freshman of the 112th Congress say that they won’t repeat the mistakes that Republicans made when they gained power sixteen years ago, but some of the advice they’re getting virtually guarantees it will happen if they aren’t careful.
Mitch McConnell made clear today that he’s targeting Barack Obama for defeat in two years.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson takes a look at the Tea Party movement and claims to find racism.
Pundits and partisans constantly overreact to the momentary mood expressed in a single election. The Republicans have already rebounded from 2008. The Democrats will recover from 2010.
Former President Clinton tried to convince Kendrick Meek to drop out of the Florida Senate race, because Democrats know that Charlie Crist had chance to win and Meek did not.
Did President Obama degrade his office by appearing on “The Daily Show”? Or is that notion a relic of a bygone era?
Some Democrats believe the Jon Stewart – Stephen Colbert rally this weekend will serve as a get-out-the-vote drive.
A poster at RedState demonstrates how not to approach the issue of race in politics.
Republicans are promising two years of gridlock and obstructionism if they take control of Congress, but is that really what the people who are likely to vote for them next week really want?
Is angry and violent language which dominates blog comments sections a sign of broader trends in our political culture?
Will a Republican-controlled Congress bring about the third Presidential Impeachment in American history? Jonathan Chait thinks it’s virtually certain that it will, I’m not so sure.
If the Republicans win back Congress in November, it will be largely unearned. But that doesn’t mean that there’s no incentive for change in American politics.