WASHINGTON—Following two months of frustrated efforts to push his American Jobs Act through Congress, President Obama announced Monday he was now attempting to have each word of the bill passed individually
“I think this is something — something different going on right now.
Speaking at the Values Voters Summit in Washington this morning, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) made an assertion that was breathtaking in its hypocrisy.
Need a reason to believe the Affordable Care Act is starting to work? The Census Bureaujust gave you a half million of them. That’s how many young adults had health insurance in 2010, as compared to 2009, according to the official estimates.
It sounds better to talk about “regulatory uncertainty” than just to say that businesses hate the idea that they’ll have to cut pollution or give more information to consumers. In any event, there’s so much wrong with the “uncertainty&rdq …
Reporting from Washington -- Holding up a copy of his jobs bill,President Obama on Monday called on Congress to pass it “immediately’’ and implored the public to put pressure on lawmakers, using a Rose Garden appearance to build grassroots support for …
Adam Smith, the Founding Fathers, Ronald Reagan—all practiced the art of wise compromise.
WASHINGTON — Private employers added 91,000 jobs in August, according to a report from ADP Employer Services issued Wednesday — a modest gain that may soothe some investors’ worries about a recession. Analysts had predicted that the report — whic …
Major tea party group to protest Romney tea party debut By: CNN Political Reporter Shannon Travis
Pawlenty told supporters on a conference call Sunday morning that he would announce on ABC's "This Week" that he was ending his campaign after a disappointing finish in the Iowa straw poll on Saturday.
The public's opinion of the Tea Party movement has soured in the wake of the debt-ceiling debate. The Tea Party is now viewed unfavorably by 40 percent of the public and favorably by just 20 percent, according to the poll.
A heavyweight for the political Tea Party movement in the south has most likely just crippled his potential political future. 61-year-old Anthony Trinca was arrested for allegedly selling pirated versions of high-end computer software.
Nearly 4,000 FAA employees were temporarily laid off last Friday when Congress couldn't agree on an extension of the agency's operating authority due to underlying partisan disputes over labor rights and subsidies for rural communities.
Three generations from now, when our great-grandchildren are sitting barefoot in their shanties and wondering how in the hell America turned from the high-point of civilization to a third-world banana republic, they will shake their fists and mutter one name: George Effin' Bush. …
The right-wingers have desperately tried to keep the fact away from the public that Obama put out a framework for debt/deficit reduction seven months ago. This framework was given to all members of Congress and has been posted publicly since April on the White House website.
Did the Tea Party Nation of Tennesseeskip out on a $642,144 Las Vegas casino-hotel bill last summer? That's what the Venetian hotel alleges in a lawsuit filed last week, according to the Last Vegas Review-Journal. Venetian owner Las Vegas Sands says the group owes the sum because …
McConnell was quickly excoriated online by tea party bloggers, with Erick Erickson of the Web site RedState.com blasting the plan as “the Pontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011.” Still, with less than three weeks left until the default deadline and no viable alterna …
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has “lost his mind,” Sen.
A week after it emerged that he was allegedly cheating on his wife with a TV reporter, it has now emerged that To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen also sent her explicit pictures of himself. The NBC anchor is said to be terrified that the steamy pictures will be leaked and end …
Speakers promoting controversial conspiracy theories may be hurting ticket sales, according to Tea Party Boise, which is making a late push to improve attendance.
BOISE, Idaho -- She was banned from every Walmart in the United States for life, and it was all because of an argument over coupons. April Cuevas says Walmart has started "cracking down" on extreme couponers like herself who want to use coupons from other stores to save …
Idaho State Sen. John McGee, R-Caldwell, was arrested overnight by Ada County Sheriff's deputies for misdemeanor drunken driving and felony grand theft.
WASHINGTON — One day after Sarah Palin announced her bus tour, a group sponsoring a Memorial Day weekend event she plans to attend said they never invited her. "She wasn't invited.
WASHINGTON – House Republicans have temporarily blocked legislation to feed school meals to thousands more hungry children.
Republicans are spending freely on their 2012 national convention in Tampa, burning through money at a pace that has alarmed some veterans of past conventions and causing more potential problems for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.
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Republican insiders are rising up to cut Newt Gingrich down to size, testament to the GOP establishment's fear that the mercurial candidate could lead the party to disaster this fall.
The Pentagon budget will shrink next year for the first time since 1998, the Obama administration said Thursday, in an attempt to chip away at the federal deficit while reorienting the armed forces toward Asia.
One of the attorneys who argued before a Georgia judge today that Barack Obama is ineligible to have his name on the state’s 2012 presidential ballot says the president’s decision to snub the court system and ignore the hearing is a dangerous precedent that threatens …
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – January 26, 2012 – President Obama walked away from Jan Brewer, who was in the middle of a sentence when he walked, according to Jan Brewer. More...
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