Sen. Barbara Boxer, usually in lockstep with the Obama Administration, took a step out of line on Monday by tacitly criticizing Secretary of State John Kerry’s likening Israel to an apartheid state. Boxer tweeted that any statement that likened Israel
Healthcare.gov was supposed to do more than just sign people up for insurance. It was also supposed to manage subsidy payments to insurers on the back-end of the site. But with the first enrollment period closed, that part of the
Former Clinton spokesperson Chris Lehane, the author of the original right-wing conspiracy memo, pens a piece in Politico lamenting that there is more conservative media than ever before. Lehane points to investigations on Benghazi, the IRS scandals, and the Solyndra
In what some are sure to view as a politically motivated prosecution, Obama’s Justice Department waited until just after a critical race deadline to announce the impending indictment of Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) The timing of the expected Grimm indictment also
Citing an explosive undercover video taken at a March 29 cockfighting rally that aired Thursday in a Louisville television station’s investigative report, a spokesperson for Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday called his primary opponent, Matt Bevin, a pathological liar.
Back in February, billionaire Tom Steyer committed to donating $100 million with the goal of making climate change a major issue in the 2014 election. Now Steyer is claiming he is nothing like the Koch brothers, the billionaires designated as
New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau admitted his bias on an episode of the game show “Jeopardy” when he appeared as a video question under the topic of “Man of the House.” In reference to Republican Representative Darrel Issa, Lichtblau
Last year employees at the federal office in charge of implementing Obamacare were given raises despite the massive failures of the rollout of the president’s takeover of our healthcare system. A recent Freedom of Information Act request made by the
Eric Cantor has never been closer to wielding the speaker’s gavel, but he may want to keep an eye over his right shoulder. As speculation heats up about whether Speaker John Boehner will return in 2015, Cantor is in the
On April 23rd Bill Clinton will headline an event for Americans for Responsible Solutions – the gun control group founded by Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly. The event is a fundraiser being held at the home of “real estate mogul
Former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert, now a K Street lobbyist, is gathering with several Chicago Republicans for a public event aimed at yet again building support in Washington for amnesty, Roll Call reports. Hastert, now a lobbyist for
Ahead of what may be another run at the GOP presidential nomination, establishment consultants, including an adviser to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-amnesty FWD.us group, are trying to rebrand Texas Governor Rick Perry’s image. According to a Politico report, Perry’s advisers
Sean Parker, the billionaire co-founder of Napster and prominent Facebook stakeholder, wants to make a splash in the political world in 2014, and he may spend his considerable wealth trying to get amnesty legislation passed. According to Politico, immigration reform is
Once again President Obama has bowed to his environmentalist supporters and passed on making a decision for or against the Keystone XL Pipeline. But the President’s refusal to make a decision has left several Democrats running for re-election stammering to
On Friday in his regular appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Politico Playbook’s Mike Allen discussed the “triage-type strategy” of the dispersal of resources by Democratic National Committee in preparation for the 2014 midterms… Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Elizabeth Warren has a forthcoming autobiography in which she describes the difficulties she faced in the 2012 election after bloggers began questioning her Native American heritage. Politico, which scored an advance copy of the book, reports that Warren was “hurt”
In one of its more bizarre attacks against the political right, Thursday morning the left-wing Politico published a lead splash containing nearly 3500 words of smoke pretending to be breaking news of a scandal that involves conservative Tea Party groups
U.S. Representative Jared Polis (D-Col.) is funding ballot measures to allow cities and counties to limit fracking in Colorado and it could end up limiting the number of state-level Democrat office holders who are able to retain their offices in
President Barack Obama’s embattled former Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius is reportedly considering a Kansas Senate run against friend-turned-critic Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS). The trial balloon for a possible Sebelius candidacy was received skeptically, as both
The headline in Politico seems innocuous enough: “Napster co-founder Sean Parker to lead civic startup.” According to the piece, the reason for the startup is that Parker and other Silicon Valley types “want to help get out the vote and are pouring
The White House has announced that John Podesta, President Obama’s current Counselor, will lead his delegation to the Holy See for the Mass of canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on April 27, 2014. Podesta will head
Since his narrow election to the Senate in 2009, Sen. Al Franken has labored to create a new image for himself as a studious wonk. But it looks like he still retains the racy sense of humor that originally landed
The top Democrat who is leading the effort to help the party elect more members to Congress said he cares more about amnesty than the midterm elections. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley on Sunday, Rep. Steve Israel
Intolerance of tolerance is certainly no virtue. But bowing to pressure from the intolerant is cowardly. That is what Brandeis President Frederick Lawrence displayed when he revoked the honorary degree the university had planned to bestow on Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Newly-retired Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius misspelled the name of her successor, Sylvia Burwell, in her final goodbye email to her HHS coworkers, reports Politico. A Friday evening email titled “Thank you” read as follows: “As you’ve no
