Dec 14, 2011 – Today, another center-right triumverate unloaded on the Republican frontrunner: National Review -   We fear that … Gingrich himself has never run for a statewide office, let alone a national one, and has not run for anything since 1998. … Republican voters seem to be engaging in willful amnesia about what is euphemistically called Gingrich's "baggage."…

Dec 14, 2011 – After becoming the first Republican speaker of the House in nearly half a century, for example, Newt promptly proposed orphanages and … By the time of the 1996 Republican National Convention, Gingrich was so widely reviled that the Democrats' main campaign strategy against … all Republican candidates for office was to link them with Gingrich.…

Dec 13, 2011 – Obama/Holder Department of Justice:   The Obama administration on Tuesday will wade into the increasingly divisive national … I suppose it's a remarkable coincidence that the Democratic National Committee also announced a major series of initiatives to combat … (you guessed it) voter ID laws earlier this month:   The Democratic National Committee announced new initiatives today…

Dec 13, 2011 – For weeks the media has complained that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been shielded from probing interviews. … The criticism and Romney's failure to break away from the crowded Republican field has prompted him to do more interviews. … Last week, Rachel Rose Hartman, a journalist for Yahoo.com, reported on a conference call with members of the Republican National Committee…

Dec 13, 2011 – Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, gave the eulogy. … Among McCaskill's findings was a $2.5 million line item inserted into the House bill by Republican Rep. Robert T. … John Brunner, one of her Republican opponents in next year's election, accuses her of hypocrisy, and is running an online video attacking…

Dec 12, 2011 – Crossroads GPS, the outside group founded by former Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan and top GOP strategist Karl … has reserved about $130,000 in broadcast and cable television time in Omaha and Lincoln over the next two weeks, according to a Republican … But one year out from the election, Nelson hasn't announced a decision, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says he hasn't…

Dec 12, 2011 – On the Republican side, the oft-proclaimed and oft-dislodged frontrunner Mitt Romney moved from running a risk-averse campaign to a … Romney did not see fit to do this when Rick Perry zoomed to a lead in national polls in August or when Herman Cain did so in October … But Gingrich clearly has posed a greater threat since he took the lead in national polls in Thanksgiving week.…

Dec 8, 2011 – Last week, the Senate voted 93-7 to pass S 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act. … The Senate Foreign Service Committee leadership asserts that the controversial provision merely codifies existing law. … Senators Rand Paul (R-TX) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) were the only Republican Senators to vote against it.…

Dec 8, 2011 – The latest in national Gallop poll shows former House Speaker Newt Gingrich soaring to a 15 point lead over Mitt Romney, 37-to-22. … GINGRICH: Well, first of all, it tells you how political she was on the ethics committee. … KUDLOW: ...former speaker of the House, Republican front-runner. We appreciate you're here... Mr. GINGRICH: Thank you.…

Dec 7, 2011 – When the Super Committee was struggling to find any common ground to reduce deficits by just $120 billion per year, President Obama … The Washington Post, not exactly a house organ for the Republican National Committee, took exception to Obama's blaming the deficit…

Dec 7, 2011 – Hey, Dwight Eisenhower (a Republican!) built the interstate highway system, for goodness' sake. … The president -- with the Democratic National Committee -- has hauled in more cash from rent-seeking financial-sector companies than … all Republican candidates combined.…

Dec 25, 2011 – So much so that she attended every session of the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston where she was "mesmerized" when Obama … Republican Senators McConnell, Grassley, Kyl, and Lee in a November 18, 2011 letter to Attorney General Eric Holder pointed out that … Republican House and Senate Judiciary Committee Members have repeatedly requested for months that the Justice Department provide information…

Dec 22, 2011 – At a news conference Wednesday at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the regulation … James Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate's environment committee, said he would file a joint resolution, a rarely used Congressional…

Dec 21, 2011 – Gingrich is credited -- mostly by himself -- for single-handedly engineering the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress. … In November 1994, a majority of Americans didn't know Newt's name; they voted Republican in reaction to two years of Clinton's liberal … Before angry rebels foist another Sharron Angle on the national party and turn a likely win into a landslide defeat, consider that…

Dec 20, 2011 – earlier played the race card regarding Fast and Furious, calling it "another manufactured controversy by the Second Amendment, NRA Republican … In a Democratic National Committee video in April 2010, he urged "young people, African-Americans, Latinos and women ... to stand together…

Dec 20, 2011 – Butterfield of North Carolina called the new laws “a cynical and malicious Republican attempt to suppress minority and elderly voters … Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that “Republicans across the country have engaged in a full-scale … Keep this in mind as Wisconsin public employee unions collect signatures to recall reformist Republican Gov. Scott Walker.…

Dec 19, 2011 –   (2) To refer the disparate bills to a conference committee to hash out differences. … A conference committee convenes to iron out discrepancies and craft compromise language.  … If not, the conference committee reconvenes and tries again. …

Dec 19, 2011 –   It's highly unusual in a presidential debate for two Republican candidates -- the two leading in current national polls … subject was the Medicare reform plan put forward in a Wall Street Journal opinion article that morning by Wyden and House Budget Committee … And in 2008, he and Republican Sen.…

Jan 5, 2012 – Previously, Planned Parenthood's abortion total had increased for 15 consecutive years, according to the National Right to Life Committee … and federal leaders to defund them, a wave of former employees willing to testify against them, and uniform agreement amongst Republican…

Jan 4, 2012 – For months now, an army of opposition researchers at the Republican National Committee have been digging up every exuberant, exaggerated … Internal government documents obtained by a House oversight committee found that the program was heavily politicized, and included … But official government data draws a starkly different picture: A nearly 9 percent national unemployment rate; a weak economic growth…

Jan 3, 2012 – As all 50 States hold Republican primaries or caucuses to determine a Republican winner over the next few months, the Democratic Party … nominee, they have been promised by the Republican National Committee (RNC) good seats and good hotel arrangements for the Republican … National Convention to be held in Tampa Bay, FL, in August.…

Jan 3, 2012 – DAVENPORT, Iowa — A day before Iowans hold the first-in-the-nation nominating contest, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney … The Democratic National Committee has already taken aim at Mr.…

Jan 3, 2012 – purposeful strategy to campaign aggressively below the surface in Iowa while pretending it was all about New Hampshire,” Boston Republican … “The truth is, he’s been playing in Iowa all along, but the national media has let him get away with pretending that he’s not. … Meanwhile, the Restore Our Future super PAC, a political action committee backing Romney, has spent nearly $3 million in ads hammering…

Jan 3, 2012 – As the GOP primary officially kicks off tonight, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus offers a timely remember…

Jan 3, 2012 – the man who invented the instant scratch-off lottery ticket is funding the campaign to replace our Electoral College with his "national … with testimony by gambling supporters such as Frank Fahrenkopf, CEO of the American Gaming (Gambling) Association and former Republican … National Committee chairman and Rep.…