When is a Democratic Party operative not a Democratic Party operative? When they allegedly tape a meeting of the GOP leader in the Senate, that’s when. Shawn Reilly, who is being investigated by the FBI for his possible role in
How desperate is the Democratic Party to get rid of Mitch McConnell? A Democratic PAC called Americans United For Change produced an ad titled “Bad Company” that links McConnell with Al-Qaeda, The Atlantic reports. McConnell has been uncompromising with regard
As tax day approaches and American’s struggle to pay their growing “total tax burden” the hard-earned taxpayer dollar is the currency of cronies. Taxpayer funded support of cronies in Washington DC is breaking America’s piggy bank. Now visas may also be
The centerpiece of Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for VA Governor this year is his record as a businessman. This experience, he argues, gives him the experience to be able to create jobs in the commonwealth. New questions about past claims,
Donna Brazile, who was an advisor on Bill Clinton’s two presidential campaigns, the campaign manager of Al Gore in 2000, was the Chair of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute, and the head of the DNC in 2011, decided to insult
The Republican National Committee’s (RNC) website has been very inactive since the Romney-Ryan defeat in the presidential election on Nov. 6 and, as the site shows, it has not updated some pages since at least July 2012. In contrast, President
In response to FLOTUS Interruptus: Michelle Obama Announces Best Picture Winner: I had a family commitment tonight that went a little long, so I ended up missing the Oscars. In case you missed it – like me – here’s the
Local and national Democrats are mobilizing against former congresswoman Debbie Halvorson, the front-runner for next week’s Democrat primary in Illinois’ special congressional election. The special election is to fill the term of disgraced Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who recently pled
Democrats have shown an alarming tolerance toward anti-Jewish attitudes recently, with DNC vice chair Donna Brazile’s indulgence towards Bill Maher’s Hagel-inspired antisemitic rant only the latest example. It is safe to say that if any Republican had sat there while
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel may not enjoy wide national support, but he has the strong support of America’s antisemites, if HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher is any indication. And leading Democrats, like Democratic National Committee vice chair Donna Brazile,
It appears that the DNC has omitted key portions of Capella’s statement from their official transcript of the call that featured both Wasserman Schultz and Van Hollen. Here is the ending of Capella’s statement (also part of the official transcript)
On Monday, prominent Democrats delivered a “prebuttal” to Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. On a conference call from the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., DNC spokesman Brad
This recent Politico article discusses the digital divide between Republicans and Democrats in the 2012 election. Republicans are running a 1.0 digital ground game operation in a 3.0 world — and they know it. At their recent leadership retreat, Chairman Reince
I have seen more powerful men than Barack Obama fall. I worked in South Africa during Thabo Mbeki’s presidency, when the ruling African National Congress (ANC) won 70% of the vote and earned the power to change his country’s constitution
On Tuesday, Democrats re-elected Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) to a second term as chair of the Democratic National Committee. Wasserman Schultz said she was “humbled” that Democrats and President Obama had confidence in her to lead the party. An internal Obama campaign
Faced with a city with a budget deficit of $238 million, a debt in the billions, and on the verge of a bond rating downgrade, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is nowhere to be found. Instead, he’s in Washington, D.C.,
Former DNC Chair Howard Dean, who as Governor of Vermont endorsed the NRA eight times, told MSNBC’s “Last Word” what he thought of the organization.
Former DNC Chair Howard Dean appearing on ABC’s This Week: “I believe…that if we go over the cliff, then the president has a lot more leverage.”
Measured by any number of metrics, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been a dismal failure. After blowing through hundreds of thousands of dollars and losing their encampments nationwide, they have been living in exile for most of 2012, and
The last few weeks were apparently so much fun, DC has decided to get the gang back together to stage another round of talks on the “fiscal cliff.” Last night, the White House announced that Obama will cut short his
I am now embarrassed for the House Republicans. This weekend, we learned first that Speaker Boehner had ceded a foundational principle of the Republican Party and offered up higher tax rates as part of a deal to avoid the “fiscal
CurrentTV: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., chair of the Democratic National Committee, joins “Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer to react to news that tea party leader Sen. Jim DeMint , R-S.C., is planning to leave Congress to helm The Heritage Foundation.
What if we told you President Obama wants to go off the fiscal cliff? You might call us conspiracy theorists, but consider this: Tax hikes and defense cuts are in the DNC platform. What happens if we go off the
President Barack Obama will ask Democrats to keep Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) as Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in January when DNC members meet. A “senior Democratic official” told Politico that “because of the outstanding job she
According to Michael Barone, the election of 2012 shows that although the population of the United States has indeed moved toward the Democratic Party, but the outlook for future presidential races is still very much up in the air. Barone, one of
