Negotiators from both parties in the House are struggling to complete work on a comprehensive agreement to reform immigration. The House’s own “gang” is made up of 4 members from each party. According to reports they have broad agreement on
Politicians can survive sex scandals. Politicians can succeed with the last name “Weiner.” But it remains to be seen if a politician can survive both. Disgraced former-Congressman Anthony Weiner is already seeing his hopes of becoming the next mayor of
Thursday morning on Chris Jansing’s MSNBC show, Politico Senior Reporter Lois Romano referred to Guantanamo Bay as a “really bad political tar baby” for President Obama: JANSING: Lois, let me start with Guantanamo Bay. Everybody knows [Obama] made this campaign
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he did not trust House and Senate Republicans in budget negotiations with Democrats. The conservative Senator said he would object to sending the Senate budget to conference unless the conferees promised not to raise the debt
The most offensive part of Anthony Weiner’s campaign for mayor isn’t the fact that he’s running. It’s the conceit that New York should become the “middle-class capital of the world”–that the melting pot should be divided into Marxist categories, that the Big
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson who has been dogged in her reporting on administration scandals including Fast and Furious and Benghazi believes her computers have been compromised. While Attkisson refused to offer specifics about who she believes is responsible, she did give
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who has been dogged in her reporting on administration scandals including Fast and Furious and Benghazi, believes her computers have been compromised. Attkisson tells Politico “I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under
Gay activists are pressuring Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to include in the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill a provision that would, according to his fellow Gang of Eight member Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), kill the bill. According to Politico, Schumer
In my experience, the term “BOLO” is a law enforcement term short for “be on the lookout” for criminals and suspects on the run. But for the Obama IRS, BOLO meant, literally, “be on the lookout” for citizen groups who
The destructive tornado that destroyed the quiet town of Moore, Oklahoma was only a few hours gone. The devastation had yet to be measured, and the dead barely counted much less mourned and laid to rest. Politico’s Glenn Thrush felt
Politico has declared embattled Attorney General Eric Holder untouchable after the many scandals, lapses, overreaches, and contempt charges have failed to induce the President to fire him. After noting that politicians have been calling for his ouster for years, Politico
Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s longtime confidante and wife of disgraced former Congressman and soon-to-be New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, did not disclose that she consulted for outside groups while still employed by the State Department. According to reports in the New
Dan Rather, discredited CBS journalist, has weighed in on the recent scandals facing the Obama administration. He stated that the “controversies” are not in the same “cosmos” of Watergate. “Those who compare it to Watergate, the Republicans, are always eager
Another brilliant column from National Review’s Rich Lowry at Politico. Lowry makes the indisputable point that the same media that have spent years attacking the Tea Party, and months savaging the NRA, are now revealing brazen hypocrisy when it comes
This won’t last. Chris Matthews is in love with Barack Obama. I’m not being hyperbolic, either. This isn’t about a a man-crush or even partisan worship. What Matthews feels is way beyond that. The “Hardball” anchor is deeply in love
Attorney General Eric Holder testified on the Hill Wednesday in a hearing scheduled prior to the release of the news that the Department of Justice seized the phone records of upwards of 20 Associated Press reporters. The grilling the Attorney
Even mainstream media outlets are running story upon story about President Barack Obama’s possible ties to the government grabbing a wire service’s phone records and the IRS bullying conservative groups. Those who have been paying attention to the New Media
The Inspector General report released late Tuesday omitted the names of the IRS agents or personnel involved in targeting tea party and limited government groups. But according to the official IRS manual, any individuals found to have engaged in the
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demanded that limited government and tea party groups produce Facebook posts, donor lists, and even what books group members were reading, reports Politico. The IRS’s hardball political tactics were all part of a strategy to
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), senior Democrat on the House Oversight Committee had some harsh words regarding the IRS’ “ideological profiling” of conservative groups. “I think laws were probably broken, but at the least there have been some improper actions on
The journalist group Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has penned a letter of complaint to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder after revelations that the Department of Justice obtained the phone records of some 100 reporters from the Associated
On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder, whose Department of Justice has been the subject of scandals ranging from Fast and Furious to pulling phone records of Associated Press editors and reporters, said that he had “recused” himself last year from
The Benghazi cover-up is falling apart and the left is desperate. They will do anything to protect former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from any blame in the scandal. In this instance, Politico’s Roger Simon has fallen back on the tired
Why was U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice sent to appear on the Sunday talk shows on September 16, 2012 instead of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to discuss the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya? After all, Clinton,
