Watching the Chuck Hagel drama is a sobering reminder that Republicans still aren’t very good at playing hardball politics. Their strategy is to use the Hagel nomination as soapbox to focus attention on a worthy, but unrelated, issue – namely
Dan Friedman of the New York Daily News wrote a piece today suggesting that he was the inadvertent source of Breitbart News’ story on “Friends of Hamas” in early February. There’s only one problem. That’s false, and Friedman knew it
In a Nov. 8, 2007 speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then-Sen. Chuck Hagel likened the U.S. to a “schoolyard bully,” adding that none of the presidential candidates in the 2008 race were “speaking to the great
The campaign for an Oscar is taking on a new meaning, as stops in D.C. are becoming the norm. The Hill is reporting that “stars and directors from at least four Oscar-nominated films have stopped in the nation’s capital to
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing on February 14th, The White House’s top Obamacare regulator found himself dodging bullets from an unexpected source: the very Democrats who passed President Obama’s signature healthcare law. During this little-publicized hearing, Democrats grilled Gary Cohen,
For two months, reporters and lawmakers have ignored a devastating report from the federal government itself, which warns that the nation’s current fiscal policy will lead to economic collapse. The Government Accountability Office (GAO)–the personal auditor of President Obama and
The Mejicano Congress has voted to suggest to the U.S. Senate to populate and then divulge a list of commercial gun owners in border states like Texas and Arizona. Mexico’s congress voted to ask the U.S. Senate to create a
Less than a month after the investigation into Marine General John Allen’s alleged “inappropriate communications” with Jill Kelley ended, he has resigned from the U.S. military to “address health issues within his family.” The emails between Allen and Kelley were alleged
Today, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who is under heavy scrutiny for his role in a wide-ranging scandal involving corruption and prostitution, visited with Afghan President Hamid Karzi to talk about … curbing corruption. The meeting at the Presidential Palace focused
This week, the liberal media has begun pushing Matt Bevin, a supposed Tea Party opponent to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Senatorial primary. On Monday, The Hill reported that McConnell “could see a primary challenge from local
In a 2010 speech at Rutgers University, former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said that Israel was on the way to becoming an “apartheid” state, called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “radical,” and accused Israel of violating UN resolutions, according
While Missouri Democrats push gun bans that would give law-abiding citizens 90 days to turn in their AR-15s and certain semi-automatic pistols and shotguns, MO Republican Reps. Doug Funderburk, Timothy Jones, and others, are pushing a “Second Amendment Preservation Act,”
Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) voted most conservative member of the House in 2012 according to National Journal. No Republican politician should ever, ever, ever … did I say ever, use the words “legitimate” and “rape” in the same sentence, paragraph,
Yesterday, White House national security adviser Tom Donilon published an op-ed in the New York Times urging the European Union to add Hezbollah to its list of terrorist organizations. In doing so, Donilon took the opposite position to that of Secretary
A Kentucky businessman has been quietly reaching out to local Tea Party and grass roots organizations, testing the waters for a primary challenge against GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell. Matt Bevin is owner of Bevin Manufacturing Co, a firm founded
(AP) Obama to press GOP on averting sequesterBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONFacing yet another fiscal deadline, President Barack Obama is urging congressional Republicans to accept more tax revenue in order to avert looming, across-the-board budget cuts due to take
WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: You couldn’t get this tipster to meet you in person. Others who have investigated him couldn’t even get him on the phone. Is it possible that this is just one big hoax? There is no real
First term Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns surprised the political world this afternoon with an announcement that he would retire at the end of his term, rather than seek reelection. Sen. Johanns had been widely considered to be running for reelection
In reviewing dozens of speeches delivered by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) over the past several years, one common theme emerges: he has very little interest in defense policy, and a great deal of interest in international diplomacy. Indeed, Hagel
When Ted Cruz was running for US Senate in the Republican primary in Texas, he promised the people of the Lone Star State that he would not go to Washington to just be another vote for the GOP establishment. He promised he would go
Harvard College’s newspaper The Harvard Crimson appears to have confirmed suspicions that a prominent Democratic Party donor currently entangled in the scandal surrounding New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez never attended Harvard. In calling on Menendez to “step down” from
In a mistake that probably wasn’t a mistake, a Washington state bill sponsored by liberal Democrats contained a little-noticed provision that would have called for the police to have the right to search private citizens’ home once per year if
CBS News can confirm that the FBI is looking in to the claims, including one that the Senator solicited prostitutes while on a trip to the Dominican Republic – a country where prostitution is legal. So far the investigations have
As an “assault weapons” ban seems less likely to even make it to a floor vote, President Obama and Democrat lawmakers are increasingly looking to universal background checks as the piece of legislation they can push through the House and
CNN Columnist David Frum is calling for Obama to bypass Congress and have the Surgeon General investigate the dangers of gun ownership and to have the Senate convene tobacco industry-style hearings (circa 1990s) on gun manufacturers. Frum’s argument is that
