There are, by any real measure, no moderates in the Republican Party. Not because there aren't any center-right members, but because the...

Think of budget politics as a game of chicken. In chicken, the player most willing to accept the consequence of not veering off is the playe...

We are in for the political slow season, news-wise. It's hard to get substantive stories, but air time must be filled, column inches mus...

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...

The headline at Gizmodo reads, " PIPA Support Collapses, and Here’s a Full List of the Senators Who Newly Oppose It ." It turns ou...

Tomorrow's the big day . After months of signature collection, petitions to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker must be turned in by Tues...

It's not difficult to show the evolution of the "town hall mobs" of rightwingers angry healthcare reform to the Tea Party. It ...

The problem with Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan doesn't lie in its obvious flaws, but in the fact that the American public have become...

Yesterday, CNN delivered some bad news for teabaggers (pdf) -- turns out no one likes them. OK, so I'm overstating the case. I apologiz...

Things in Madison seem to be moving in the right direction. Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall reported yesterday that signs point to ...

The Iraq war has definitely overstayed its welcome. As it goes on (and on and on...), the war becomes less and less popular. I think it migh...

In a damning piece in Salon , Sidney Blumenthal reports that Bush was told that Iraq had no WMD before the war, but blew off the info. On S...

What do you do with an unpopular war that serves no real purpose? It doesn't seem like it's all that difficult a question -- you sto...

Scooter Libby's commutation is working out about as well for the White House as you might expect. For a president already no more popula...

Presidential longshot Joe Biden on dems caving in to Bush on Iraq War funding: PBS NewsHour : We have 50 votes in the United States Senate. ...

Democrats caved last night and gave Bush everything he needs to continue his damned war. So we'll start this post with a handy household...

Yesterday , the Democratic leadership in Congress folded holding a royal flush. In the Iraq war funding fight -- a fight that dems could not...

Guess what? Bush doesn't get it: Associated Press : President Bush, urging Congress to craft a war spending bill quickly, offered no clu...

By now, you know that Bush vetoed the war funding bill. Not a huge surprise, really. This is a man who can be relied on to always do exactly...

A new poll was released yesterday and, among other things, the Pew Center for the People and the Press found that Bush has -- as I've b...