Hey, remember how the modest two year budget deal hammered out by Paul Ryan and Patty Murray was a sign that insane partisanship was on it...

There are three things I can pretty much guarantee happened this morning; the sun came up, newspapers were delivered to doorsteps, and Pau...

The House Republican caucus went fullblown clown show yesterday, as they tried -- and failed -- to fit their ideological square peg into r...

A week long illness is now receding and I can wear my glasses again without wanting to hurl. Sinus pressure must realign your eyeballs or so...

On the off-chance that you're not familiar with the what I'm going to call the Youngstown Clean Pot Massacre, here's the skinny....

I was going to start off by saying that Paul Ryan's speech at the Republican Convention last night proves that Team Romney's got not...

And that would be Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, affirming a point I made yesterday -- specifically, this one : [Trying...

When Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri said that it was almost impossible for a woman to get pregnant from " legitimate rape ," he was re...

Against the background of Mitt Romney's continuing attacks on Barack Obama and Medicare, PolitiFact checked a statement by Obama deput...

Well thank God Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan to be his running mate. Now we can finally have a debate of substance. This has been the media...

Part of the media consensus on Mitt Romney's choice of running mate seems to be that conservatives just love Paul Ryan to pieces. And th...

I suppose I have to write the obligatory Paul Ryan post. The good news about that is that there's a lot to talk about with Ryan. The bad...

It's something that's completely obvious to any close observer of politics and now it's clear that it's pretty apparent to e...

It's always fun to feign perplexity over polling. Basically, it works this way; a bunch of pundits agree on a narrative -- often based o...

It's a warning I haven't written about in a while, but beware of true believers. I used it more during the Bush administration, when...

Thursday, a Fox News poll showed that the public believes -- by an extremely wide margin -- that Pres. Barack Obama would probably be reel...

It's not class warfare. It's math. -President Barack Obama That quote was from the president's speech announcing a plan to reduc...

Reading a Politico piece on Republican elites worrying about 2012, you can almost stop reading after the fourth paragraph: It's a to...

What is that I smell; is it fear or blood in the water? Politico : It will cost $15 to ask Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) a question in perso...

In 2008, Barack Obama was an elitist. This was the worst thing ever. He supposedly ate in fancy restaurants and ordered unearthly foreign de...