Tweet Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) thinks Republicans are doing a number on the nation’s body politic. “There’s no question that Republicans, at least in the House and perhaps in the Senate as well, have contributed significantly to the legislative constipation that we are experiencing in the United States,” Cleaver said on MSNBC’s “Politics Nation” Friday. [...]
Tweet WASHINGTON — The Senate has soundly rejected a balanced budget plan authored by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Five Republicans joined every Democrat present to kill the measure, which failed on a 40-59 vote. The GOP’s most ardent tea partyers – Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of [...]
Tweet NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush beseeched a gathering of conservatives in remarkably frank terms on Friday night to change the course of the Republican Party and to become a more diverse, welcoming and understanding party to minorities and low-income Americans. Bush, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference annual dinner, [...]
Tweet WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner says he’s turning town President Barack Obama’s invitation to be in the U.S. delegation to the installation of Pope Francis. The Ohio Republican says in a statement that he’d like to go, but it’s impossible with his duties including the budget debate and hosting the Irish prime minister [...]
Tweet BY JIM ABRAMS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS House Republicans have put out a video to remind visitors that while they may be locked out of the Obama White House because of budget cuts, the doors to the Capitol are still open for tours. The un-narrated 90-second video posted on YouTube is the latest effort by [...]
Tweet Paul Krugman accused a Republican Senator of trying to have a debate with all the wrong facts. During a heated Roundtable discussion on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist told Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) that he had all the wrong facts on Social Security. “Your facts [...]
Tweet PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The most well-worn political parlor game in Rhode Island these days surrounds Republican-turned-independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee and whether he intends to switch to the Democratic Party before next year’s election. National Democrats gave Chafee a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in the fall, the state’s all-Democratic congressional delegation hosted [...]
Tweet WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says looming automatic budget cuts will cause a “tumble downward” for the economy. He acknowledges many people may not immediately notice the full impact of the so-called sequester cuts if they take effect Friday. But he says yanking $85 billion from the economy this year would be a “big [...]
Tweet Ok, I fully admit that headline was too tempting for me to pass up. But I have to say, I’m not really all that interested in Senator Marco Rubio’s dry mouth or the swig of bottled water he took to quench it. I leave that for others who are better equipped to offer up [...]
Tweet Entrepreneur and television personality Donald Trump slammed GOP strategist Karl Rove in a series of tweets on Thursday. “Karl Rove’s strategy and commercials were the worst I have ever seen,” Trump said in one tweet. “Karl Rove is a total loser. Money given to him might as well be thrown down the drain.” Trump [...]
