Senate Democrats may have one last parting display of animosity for Barack Obama. Reports indicate they have no intention of trying to ram through his pick for Attorney General in the lame duck session. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds has an excellent list of suggestions at USA Today for an early salvo of bills the Republicans could fire off when the new Congress comes into session. As he puts it, there are three kinds of bills
In response to Dems to double down on Koch Brothers attacks: Of course the Dems and Reid do not have any intention of backing down from this lucrative campaign, which that has fooled many on the left (not hard to
From left: Speaker of the House John Boehner, President Barack Obama, outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In back: Democratic Party mastermind and Andrew Breitbart nemesis John Podesta Not pictured: incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says he will decide on a potential 2016 presidential run “in the coming weeks.” He’ll do so without the help of a pro-amnesty adviser and former chief of staff who has left his office. “For me,
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has spent a lot of his time in an ultimately toothless attack on Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers who have spent millions on Libertarian and Republican political causes. Now, despite massive electoral losses
Not one prone to hyperbole, the most senior republican in the Senate, Utah’s Orrin Hatch said of Harry Reid’s leadership, it’s “the most pathetic, pitiful way I’ve seen the Senate run in all my 38 years — and I’ve seen some
Conservative Republicans in the Senate are calling on the outgoing Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid (R-NV) to block President Obama’s promised executive action on immigration as they say it is his responsibility to protect the Constitution’s prescribed balance of
“I don’t really care to be president without the Senate,” Obama reportedly conceded in June. Political analysts, and even some Democratic insiders, have long questioned whether President Barack Obama’s frequent golf outings and extended vacations are further evidence that he has checked
This week’s midterm victories were a step in the right direction for conservatives and the core principles we hold dear. There is no understating the importance of the seats we picked up in both the Senate and the House, and
NBC political analyst and editor and publisher of The Cook Political Report Charlie Cook argued that obstructionism by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid hurt his party in the 2014 elections on MSNBC. Cook said “Harry Reid exposed some of his
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell argued that Harry Reid might be out as Senate Majority Leader in the wake of Tuesday’s election results during the network’s special coverage of the elections on Tuesday. When asked whether he thought Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
At Greg Abbott’s election night party in Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz hailed Abbott’s victory against Democratic candidate Wendy Davis. Cruz praised Abbott for being “smart, principled, and fearless,” recalling that the Texas Attorney General was one of his mentors. “Greg
Henry County, Georgia – named after Revolutionary War Patriot Patrick Henry, who coined the slogan “give me liberty, or give me death” – is under the microscope again this election cycle, two years after the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division scrutinized the school
The North Carolina Republican Party is accusing Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) supporters of dirty tricks in the waning hours of the 2014 election cycle in the wake of an anti-Thom Tillis campaign flier pushing for Libertarian candidate Sean Haugh. Monday
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Congress should not have a lame-duck session if Americans vote out Democrats on Tuesday and give Republicans control of Congress. On Breitbart News Sunday, Cruz, who was in Alaska campaigning for GOP Senate candidate Dan Sullivan,
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — President Barack Obama will move forward with his planned executive amnesty unless voters of New Hampshire elect former Sen. Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate, Brown told Breitbart News exclusively on Sunday evening at a Manchester campaign
Democrat Senate Majority leader Harry Reid is warning that if Republican Joni Ernst wins her bid for an open U.S. Senate seat in Iowa, the Democrats will lose their majority in the upper chamber. After Iowa’s longtime Democrat Senator Tom
The liberal Huffington Post is entering the final weekend of the 2014 campaign predicting that Republicans will pick up enough seats to claim control of the Senate. Even discounting some races that have lately trended towards the GOP, HuffPo says
Dr. Milton Wolf, who unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) in this year’s primary announced his endorsement of Roberts on Thursday’s “Mark Levin Show.” “We live in a difficult time, I think our republic is in trouble…in Harry Reid you
If pollsters are to be believed, Democrats nationwide do not have much to look forward to in next week’s elections. There is, however, a silver lining that stands to benefit the party and liberal-leaning voters everywhere in ways that far
One can only assume that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid either thinks his Democrat donor base is dumb, or merely woefully out of touch. I doubt anyone believes Republicans want anything to do with impeaching Barack Obama at this point,
Sen. Mark Pryor has distanced himself from President Obama as he campaigns for reelection, however he does not appear to be running away from an association with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). “I would say that I would support
An easy excuse to not look into the potential ethics violations of a Democratic leader or a clerical error? The conservative watchdog group Cause of Action says the Senate Ethics Committee is claiming to have misplaced an ethics complaint about
In a startling Monday debate statement, embattled Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) defended one of the U.S. Senate’s most unpopular and liberal members, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), but curiously refused to say whether she would vote to re-elect Reid
Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), says it’s “un-American” for President Barack Obama to consider implementing an executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens across the country. “It’s unconstitutional, illegal, and we don’t support it,” Priebus
To the chagrin of Senate Democrats now busy trying to run away from him, recently Barack Obama said they all had his back when it mattered. It turns out, Obama was right. A new CQ vote study shows vulnerable Senate
It appears that Mike Rounds is escaping the sudden renewed interest from Democrats and the media as a new public poll shows him leading his opponents by 9 points. A new Argus Leader/KELO-TV poll of likely voters shows Rounds leading
Even though Democrats quickly followed news of the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting with renewed calls for the kind of background checks contained in the failed Senate gun control bill, the facts demonstrate one clear point: The failed Senate gun bill
A radio ad from a super PAC run by former aides to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is tying the death of Trayvon Martin to GOP Senate candidate Thom Tillis. The ad, a recording of which was posted online, says “Tillis
Conservative talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin, argued that Democrat Senate candidates distancing themselves from the president are evidence that the president’s failures are “coming home now” on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) said the balance of power in the U.S. Senate is a key issue in the Kansas race. Roberts said, “Basically the people of Kansas got it
CLEMSON, South Carolina — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)–a likely 2016 presidential candidate–expects the GOP field for the 2016 presidential nomination to form by June of next year, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on the way to a
WICHITA, Kansas– Kansas Independent candidate Greg Orman remains notoriously lose on important issues and Kansas Republicans are wasting no time to define their opponent. Wichita local radio host Joseph Ashby kicked off a political rally here with a play on
Georgia Senatorial Republican nominee David Perdue clashed with the state’s Democratic Senatorial nominee Michelle Nunn on Tuesday night as the two debated topic ranging from immigration to national security. Georgia campaign politics include debate “throw downs” in which campaigns organize
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has the lowest net favorability rating of his entire career. A Gallup poll found that 45% of Americans view Reid unfavorably while only 21% view him favorably for a net favorable score of -24,
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak, author of the new ebook ‘Wacko Birds,’ told Sean Hannity on Monday that not only did the Republican Party need a clear vision for governing, but visionaries who could articulate that vision. He noted that the
At the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a potential 2016 presidential candidate, emphatically told conservatives that they will only reverse the damage that radical Democrats have done to the country if they do not run away
