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In the wake of his reelection victory last month, President Obama has enjoyed a steady rise in his approval ratings. According to Gallup’s daily tracking poll, Obama’s approval rating reached 58% on December 21st, a 52-week high. Election winners typically

This afternoon, at 3pm EST, the five principal players in the tragi-comedic tele-play, “The Fiscal Cliff“, meet at the White House to begin the final maneuvering ahead of Monday’s midnight deadline. The four Congressional Leaders and President Obama will initiate

Speaker Boehner and his Leadership team have mishandled negotiations over the “fiscal cliff.” Setting aside their tactical moves, their overall strategy going into the talks was misguided. They assumed that Obama wanted to reach a deal and that getting there

Today, it finally dawned on the media–and the markets–that we are very likely going over the “fiscal cliff.” With the House out of town, speculation turned to the Senate and expectations rose that Reid would offer his own plan to

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

The holidays are traditionally a time where we renew our optimism about the future. Gatherings with friends and family, festive meals and sparkling decorations are all powerful elixirs to the wear-and-tear of daily life. A new ABC/WaPo poll, however, shows

On January 3rd, the new 113th Congress will convene for its first day of business. The first action in the House will be electing a Speaker, the chamber’s presiding officer. The vote is conducted by a public roll-call, where each

The future leadership of the House GOP conference may be decided by a procedural motion on the morning of January 3rd. When the new 113th Congress convenes that day, the first order of business will be to elect a Speaker

In the wake of House GOP Leadership’s strategic miscalculation last night, legitimate questions are being raised about the future of Speaker John Boehner’s leadership. But, it is important to remember that the House GOP is led by a triumvirate. In

To fully appreciate the strategic miscalculation House GOP Leadership made last night, consider this: rank-and-file Republicans were being asked to vote to increase tax rates for a deal that had no chance of passing. Obama had promised to veto the

The House GOP Conference called Speaker Boehner’s bluff. Boehner had entered the “fiscal cliff” negotiations as a one-man show, offering up concessions on bedrock conservative principles on behalf of his entire conference. Forgetting that any offer he made needed the

With the obvious breakdown in talks between President Obama and Republicans on the “fiscal cliff”, Speaker Boehner is moving forward today with his “Plan B.” The House will vote today on two pieces of legislation: one to extend Bush-era tax

In the immediate aftermath of Friday’s terrible tragedy in Connecticut, there have been the predictable calls to enact new gun control legislation. The usual proponents of additional restrictions on guns have filled the airwaves with calls for immediate legislative action.

Today, President Obama announced that Vice-President Biden will head up a new task force charged with making recommendations to reduce gun violence in America. It’s a predictable response to last Friday’s horrific shooting in Connecticut. In addition to the long-standing

Coincidences don’t exist in Washington and actions don’t unfold randomly. There may not be an obvious connection between news events in a day or week, but, behind the scenes, a steady hand is at least trying to guide the political

Obama’s latest offer isn’t good enough for the House GOP. Yesterday, President Obama offered a slightly lower tax hike, raising rates on those making more than $400,000, and modest spending cuts along with a 2-year lift in the debt ceiling

Speaker Boehner goes before the House GOP conference today to detail the status of his negotiations with President Obama on a “fiscal cliff” deal. Up to this point the negotiations, which could result in the biggest US tax hike in

An unfathomable tragedy like Friday’s shooting in Connecticut produces an understandable instinct to assign blame and “fix” laws. Despite eons of evidence to the contrary, we yearn to pretend that evil doesn’t exist. We convince ourselves that a particular tragic

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

The imminent nomination of Sen. John Kerry to be the next Secretary of State sets up another special election in Massachusetts. The nature of special elections combined with a relatively weak Democrat bench give Republican Scott Brown an edge to

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has traditionally been the federal government’s neutral arbiter of disputes between labor and businesses. It’s tasked with giving a fair hearing to unions, workers and businesses. However, according to a new report from the

Michigan’s right-to-work reform was very different than Walker’s reforms in Wisconsin. That’s states reforms covered the public sector. While it also eliminated mandatory union dues, it also eliminated collective bargaining for benefits, retaining it for wages. Michigan’s reforms only dealt

Conservatives got an unexpected victory this week when Michigan became the 24th state to protect workers by enacting a right-to-work law. The reform breaks the unions’ iron grip on workers in the industrial heartland. Americans for Prosperity (AFP) was on

This afternoon, Breitbart News sat down with Sen. Jim DeMint, in advance of his exit from the Senate to take the reigns at the Heritage Foundation. Our conversation primarily focused on the future of the conservative movement and the immediate

Almost every day, President Obama meets with some new slice of the American public to pitch his side in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Business leaders, unions, governors, state lawmakers, etc. have all been courted as part of Obama’s push for

Last week, House GOP Leadership flexed its muscle and stripped 4 conservative members of their committee assignments. After my colleague Matthew Boyle reported that leadership seemed to use a secret vote “score” to make their decision, anxiety grew that leadership

Embarrassingly, we’ve all been there. With something of a crush, we try to get the attention of that one special person. We send letters or, in this day, texts. We talk to friends of friends. We make outlandish public displays

The Michigan legislature made history today when it passed legislation making the state the 24th to enact right-to-work laws protecting workers. Workers in Michigan can no longer be compelled to join a union as a condition of employment. Perhaps more

Senate appropriators are readying a massive $60 billion aid package for states effected by Superstorm Sandy, which struck the East Coast at the end of October. Sources on the Hill tell Breitbart News that the full Senate is expected to

President Obama claims we need a “balanced approach” to solve our nation’s budget mess, but it’s hard to get there when he keeps taking spending cuts off the table. Late yesterday, the White House announced that it no longer supported

I raised an eyebrow when I saw news that President Obama was traveling to Detroit this afternoon to make his case on the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Presidential destinations are never random. There are usually several reasons for the choice of

6 This week, the Michigan legislature is expected to give final approval to ground-breaking reforms which will make it the 24th state to enact right-to-work legislation. To longer would Michigan workers be forced, as a condition of employment, to hand

Yesterday, voters in Louisiana’s 3rd District went to the polls to decide the last Congressional election of 2012. Veteran Congressman Charles Boustany defeated Freshman Congressman Jeff Landry, winning around 60% of the vote to Landry’s 40%. The lawmakers were forced

And I mean absurd in the most literal sense. We all know that the U.S. tax code is riddled with “loopholes”, exemptions and deductions intended to incentivize certain activities. Many of these are of dubious provenance and questionable utility. But,

Heading into his second term, President Obama will have to start taking responsibility for his economic record. The recession officially ended just a few months into his first term and he has ushered through a host of policies he said

With today’s surprise announcement that Sen. Jim DeMint would resign his Senate seat, all eyes have turned to South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley who will name a replacement. While the state has a deep bench of conservative politicians, Rep. Tim