CBS News conducted the first poll in the days after the partial government shutdown that began on October 1 and the headlines scream the same message: “GOP To Blame For Unpopular Shutdown“ However, the buried lede in these stories is,
House Republicans will meet today to determine how to proceed on the continuing resolution/debt ceiling negotiations. Speaker John Boehner has said he will not dictate strategy at the meeting, but members are looking to him to for direction and strategy
On the day Democrats in the House introduced comprehensive immigration reform legislation, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) indicated on Wednesday that the House would move on immigration legislation after an agreement is reached to end the government
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) became a national liberal heart throb thanks to her much publicized filibuster of an abortion bill. But you wouldn’t know it given her recent announcement for Texas Governor, one perhaps more interesting for what
Fear not the shutdown, Republicans in Congress! You are the supposedly conservative alternative in politics, and we are currently $16 trillion in the hole. The least you can do is stop spending so much money everyday to keep the vile
Breitbart News has obtained emails in which an immigration campaign organizer for the Center for Community Change (CCC), a liberal grassroots organizing group working with a Hispanic advocacy group and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), sent an email this
Emails authored by Mike Sommers, House Speaker John Boehner’s Chief of Staff, indicate possible coordination between House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) in the exemption of Congress from Obamacare. The leak occurred Tuesday when Reid’s Chief of
Since the government shutdown on Tuesday, House Republicans have pushed legislation to reopen selected parts of the federal government. They have proposed legislation to reopen National Parks, the Veterans Administration and fully fund the National Guard, among other measures. To
WASHINGTON — A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase toward the Capitol, where police shot and killed her, witnesses and officials
NBC affiliate WPSD 6 in Paducah, Kentucky caught Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul Wednesday on a hot mic Paul “I just did CNN and I just go over and over again ‘We’re willing to compromise, I
While House and Senate Republicans attempt to reopen specific federal agencies, Senate Democrats have formed a united block against what they call a “piecemeal” approach. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has slammed Republicans for trying to “cherry-pick” which parts of
Three funding measures failed to pass because of Democrat opposition in the House on Tuesday night that would have maintained veterans’ benefits, kept national monuments and other historic sites opened, and continued local funding for the District of Columbia. As
Since the government shutdown, House and Senate Republicans have proposed restoring funding to specific agencies or government functions while the parties seek consensus on the larger issues. The House has proposed legislation to reopen the National Parks, the National Institutes
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO Northern California Republican who ran as a conservative to get the Republican Senate nomination in 2010, attacked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday, saying there was “no honor” in his fight to defund Obamacare.
A plurality of Americans, 44%, say Republicans deserve more blame for the government shutdown, according to a new CBS poll. But, a surprising 35% believe President Obama, who has publicly refused to negotiate with the GOP, deserves more of the
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) thinks his colleague Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is actually leading the House of Representatives in mounting the opposition to Democrats on the budget and other fiscal matters. Reid slammed what he said was a
“One man gathers what another man spills.” The Grateful Dead The government shutdown is generating a lot of comment in the press about how the Republicans are somehow responsible for this latest fiscal crisis. Nicholas Kristof of The New York
As the federal government enters day three of a partial shutdown, talk in Congress is turning increasingly to a “grand bargain” that would include entitlement and tax reform as a way to resolve the current fiscal impasse. Rep. Steve Stivers,
To explain the partial shutdown of the federal government, the Associated Press is characterizing the issue as one between the noble Obama and the partisan Republicans. Further, as if they have no role here, the AP doesn’t mention Harry Reid
As Democrats take up immigration reform again, Justice for Immigrants, the group that is running the well-organized campaign for amnesty for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), will be rooting for many of the same politicians that support
After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Wednesday wondered why Congress would want to help one child with cancer during the government shutdown by agreeing to fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH), former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ripped
Left-wing Politico, in its latest attempt to scuttle burgeoning Republican momentum on the government shutdown, has launched an all-out hit piece on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), completely with anonymous quotes from a Republican senator. The title: “Government shutdown 2013: Ted
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi came out to the waiting press after meeting with the President and Republicans…
On Wednesday, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said there were enough votes in the House of Representatives for an immigration bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship or legalization for all of the
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) took to Twitter to brag that his state’s Obamacare online exchange, Access Health CT, received 28,000 visitors on day one–and took just 167 insurance applications. That works out to a 0.59% conversion rate of visitors to
On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Democrats are willing to do “whatever it takes” to go to conference with the Senate to pass an immigration bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for all of the
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid used his Senate floor time to discuss the dictionary definition of the term “villain.”
On Wednesday, The Hill reported that House Republicans were “following [Sen. Ted] Cruz’s playbook” as the shutdown continued. “GOP leaders on Tuesday introduced a series of bills to fund specific parts of the government in lieu of one sweeping package
During a Wednesday afternoon press briefing, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid about agreeing to fund the National Institutes of Health, as the GOP is proposing to do with no strings attached. Bash mentioned the fact that
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz made the following statement today regarding the government “shutdown,” and the World War II Memorial: “President Obama is so fixated on forcing Obamacare on the American people that he’s even willing to deny World War II
In consonance with the Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) strategy of funding the government piecemeal and forcing the Senate to vote up or down on specific funding for specific branches of the federal government, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on
The nation once again owes the heroes of World War II a debt of gratitude. The veterans who stormed the barricades that the federal government tried to erect around the WWII memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. reminded us that
(AP) House Democrats unveil immigration billBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONHouse Democrats have unveiled an immigration bill that includes a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants living here illegally and tightens border security. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and more than
(AP) Obama, lawmakers to hold meeting on shutdownBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday as a partial government shutdown entered a second day with little sign of a breakthrough to get hundreds
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi referenced the “Father of Our Country,” George Washington, to castigate the GOP for the government shutdown. She said: What the speaker is doing is doubling and tripling down [on] a path that it was always
Confident that the mainstream media will help place the blame for the looming government shutdown on the Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) refusal to negotiate with GOP leaders to avert that possibility may well be seen, in retrospect,
President Obama, as much as House Republicans, shut down the government. He is not willing to compromise on just about any issue, leaving the GOP with no other options. In 2008, Obama won 53 percent of the popular vote and
Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R -TX) was verbally beaten up by his own constituents on his FaceBook page for voting for cloture and allowing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – NV) to throw out an amendment that would strip
(AP) New sanctions likely despite thaw in US-Iran tiesBy DEB RIECHMANN and BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated PressWASHINGTONA war-weary Congress generally backs President Barack Obama’s outreach to Iran, but with tougher U.S. economic measures against Tehran on the way, the president’s diplomatic task
The failure of the Obamacare exchanges–two-thirds of which, according to CNN, are not working after launch–is more than just a fulfillment of conservative skepticism of government in general. It also highlights a key feature of Barack Obama’s personality: his absolute
