Jun 6, 2011 – to cover the story, speaks volumes not only about the No. 1 obstacle the GOP faces in trying to retake the White House in 2012. … , the unions and the Democrat National Committee. … • MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and an author.…

Jun 3, 2011 – net gain of 24 seats to win back the House. … On Medicare, [former House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi said Democrats are willing to use the issue as a campaign weapon.” … It will be foolish to underestimate the determination of the Democrat liberal establishment to take back power in Congress.…

Jun 3, 2011 – know that (a) the president appointed a debt commission, then ignored its recommendations on ideological grounds; (b) the White House … (Nice catch by ABC Newsman Jake Tapper, based on his exchange with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney):   TAPPER:  … In the meeting yesterday with House Republicans, a number of the House Republicans said to the president that they wanted him to introduce…

Jun 2, 2011 – brought back boyhood memories of whiling away an endless summer day under the slowly revolving ceiling fan on the screen porch of our house … Courage, Inky Wretch (Paul Greenberg is the Pulitzer prize-winning editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.…

Jun 2, 2011 – Its tax-the-rich, three-to-one Democrat vs. … It costs California $47,000 to house an inmate each year, versus $18,000 in Texas.…

Jun 1, 2011 – "Since we will have the Federal Reserve for a while, yes, I think they should be confirmed," Ron Paul, who chairs a House of Representatives … The top Democrat on the House Banking panel, Barney Frank, has questioned whether regional Fed bank presidents deserve to be able to…

Jun 1, 2011 – Although there’s general agreement that the most pressing issue facing the federal government is its runaway finances, the Democrat-controlled … Democrats brought up the budget passed by House Republicans for the sole purpose of voting it down. … (The House, refusing to cede all irrationality to the Senate, held a just-for-show vote to defeat a no-strings-attached increase in…

Jun 1, 2011 – The move passed the Democrat-controlled lower house on Tuesday on a 47-16 vote. It now goes to the Senate.…

Jun 1, 2011 – James Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, offers a far more familiar if no more persuasive take: "The … Obama's a liberal Democrat. … He does things a white liberal Democrat would do, and he receives mostly the same opposition a white liberal Democrat would receive…

Jun 1, 2011 – Politicians promised cradle-to-school-to-car-to-house-grave; promises which they simply could never pay for, never intended to pay … That’s what the French Socialist Party, the British Labour Party and now, most of the Democrat Party here in the U.S., stand for.   …

May 31, 2011 – Not unexpected, but still remarkable: The US House has decisively defeated a bill that would have heeded President Obama's call … The final vote total was 97 Yeas (all Democrats), 318 Nays (including every single voting Republican and nearly half of the Democrat … Today the House stood with the American people and said very clearly that this course of action is unacceptable.…

May 31, 2011 – House Republican leadership will call a vote tonight on legislation reflecting President Obama's preference for a "clean," unconditional … Boehner, Cantor & Co. want to send an unambiguous message to the White House: if and when the debt ceiling gets hiked, it will come … UPDATE - A House GOP source informs me the vote is likely going to occur around 6:30pm ET.…

May 31, 2011 – Evidence the Republicans aren’t serious: As the Federal Treasury burns, the House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees are … Just last week, a special election in New York rocked the establishment, as the long-shot Democrat defeated her opponent in a safely … Republicans revert to their usual propensities to bunker in and endure the political firestorm, Barack Obama will remain in the White House…

May 31, 2011 – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, and his Democratic counterpart, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland … The bill, introduced by House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Republican, and her ranking member, Rep. … Howard Berman, California Democrat, would greatly expand the sanctions on human-rights violators in the government and in the Iranian…

May 31, 2011 – How about Obama walking into a window at the White House? Duhr, duhr! What about signing a guest book 2008 in 2011? … Obama has made Jimmy Carter look like a foreign policy mastermind since he got into the White House. … If Barack Obama were a Republican, he'd be called an Oreo, a half-white house slave, and a white man pretending to be black.…

Apr 10, 2011 – When their party occupies the White House, they defend the president's absolute right to invade, bomb or strafe any country on Earth … This is a sentiment that surfaces in the GOP only when a Democrat becomes president.It was Republican Richard Nixon, after all, who … (The courts threw it out.)The bombing of Libya revived this desire to restrict White House discretion.…

Apr 8, 2011 – The Idaho House of Representatives was debating a bill that would eliminate the cap on the number of charter schools allowed in the … state when the minority leader, Democrat John Rusche, accused proponents of an ethical violation. … His complaint ultimately led to the tabling of the bill, which was originally expected to pass the Republican-majority House.…

Apr 7, 2011 – A Democrat-caused government shutdown is as real a possibility as ever today.  … that cuts $12 Billion -- including defense spending -- while funding our troops for the rest of the year: The GOP-controlled House … This House-passed bill keeps the government running at full strength for another week and allows negotiations to continue. …

Apr 7, 2011 – To them, the welfare of the Socialist-leaning Democrat Party comes before the welfare of this nation. … House Republicans are proposing more than $4 trillion in federal spending cuts over the next 10 years by reshaping popular programs…

Apr 6, 2011 – What became clear at the hearing of the House Armed Services Committee's Personnel Subcommittee chaired by Joe Wilson, South Carolina … Chellie Pingree, Maine Democrat, urged "a rapid pace" to overturn a "horrendous" and "morally reprehensible policy." … Niki Tsongas, Massachusetts Democrat, wanted to make sure that "diversity" training will be "an ongoing, ever-present element" and…

Apr 6, 2011 – .-1) and the House GOP released their ten-year budget entitled "The Path to Prosperity" [pdf] to much fanfare on Capitol Hill yesterday … Speaker of the House John Boehner is fond of pointing out that the GOP only controls one half of one third of the government. … Whereas a go-to Democrat talking point from 2009-2010 was that the GOP was "the party of No," Democrats will have to step up to the…

Apr 6, 2011 – Now, how can the White House budget claim federal spending was only $3.720 trillion in fiscal 2010, when the Treasury says it was $11.5 … The biggest reason is because the spending tables produced by the Office of Management and Budget to accompany the White House budget … Erskine Bowles, a Democrat who served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and as co-chair of President Barack Obama's National…

Apr 6, 2011 – But while Republicans, Democrats and the White House bickered over whether to cut anywhere from $61 billion to $33 billion -- or else … House Republican budget leaders were expected to unveil their budget proposals Tuesday that called for spending reductions in the order … To a large degree, that will depend on how the House GOP leadership frames the issue and their proposals.…

Apr 6, 2011 – She also raved over the Obamas when she wasn't on the White House lawn. … She never, ever treated a Democrat this way. Just days before, she hailed Joe Biden on the campaign trail.…

Apr 5, 2011 – Days before House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a Republican, was to lay out his $4 trillion plan for controlling federal spending … Trust him.Congressman Van Hollen -- whose most recent brush with success was directing Democratic efforts last year to keep the House … Notice the number of rich men whose votes -- must have been several thousand of them -- flipped more than 60 House seats to the GOP…