Obama Walks Out of Talks Saying ‘Don’t Call My Bluff’
President Obama has walked out of negotiations on the debt ceiling with an agreement is nowhere in sight.
President Obama has walked out of negotiations on the debt ceiling with an agreement is nowhere in sight.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has proposed a simple deal to break the impasse on the debt ceiling: Cede power to raise the ceiling to the president, with a few minor caveats.
It was a largely fruitless weekend in the debt negotiations.
The US Supreme Court declined to stay the execution of a child raping murderer over a technical violation of a treaty.
The Senate Republican leader is running a shrewd political game. But what’s good for the GOP is bad for America.
Ppartisan politics no longer stops at the water’s edge. This is a bad sign for the Republic.
Talks about a deal to raise the debt ceiling seem pretty close to collapse now that there are no Republicans involved.
As Congress left town for the long weekend, the Senate Minority Leader threw a grenade into the budget negotiations.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants a full debate on the PATRIOT Act. What’s Congress so afraid of?
Obama’s main politics are hardly as leftist as many make them out to be. Indeed, much of them could have fit well in the the GOP of 1990s and early 2000s.
President Obama’s budget speech was light on specifics, but that’s because it was really the opening salvo of the 2012 campaign.
Four Senators who just happen to be up for re-election next year are silently looking for alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.
The Senate leadership has agreed to exempt 1/3 of nominations from the confirmation process.
Now that Republicans have the House, wouldn’t they be better off playing nice?
President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts are calling for bipartisanship in the New Year.
The Federal Communications Commission is using a statute from the 1930s to try to regulate the technology of the 21st Century. It’s a mistake.
Did Obama’s tax cut deal demolish the Republican charge that he’s a radical? Not hardly.
The battle between social and fiscal conservatives continues, with the SoCons now saying that criticism of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint is now considered evidence of ideological impurity.
The GOP is being urged to avoid social issues and concentrate on reducing spending, shrinking government, and economic freedom. It’s a good idea.
Shockingly, Mitch McConnell and other Republicans are hoping to increase their numbers in Congress and take back the White House.
Mitch McConnell made clear today that he’s targeting Barack Obama for defeat in two years.
Congressional Republicans and President Obama both held press conferences today that included talk of bipartisanship and working together. Don’t believe it.
The enthusiasm for Tea Party candidates likely helped the House Republican wave. But it also likely cost the GOP four Senate seats that it would otherwise have won — and thus the majority.
Jack Conway’s “Aqua Buddha” ad has come back to haunt him in the polls, and may become the act that seals his fate on Election Day.
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?
The Democratic Party seems to have decided that the best way to begin the final leg of the midterm election campaign is with a legislative cave-in of epic proportions.
Lisa Murkowski is the worst kind of sore loser candidate, willing to screw over her party’s voters and her own donors to keep her seat