Budget Battles
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Has Trump Already Lost His Iron Grip on the GOP?
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House Votes to Dodge Shutdown, Ditching Trump Demand
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Trump-Approved Spending Plan Goes Down in Flames
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Trump Blows Up Johnson’s Bipartisan Spending Deal
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Republicans Fume Over ‘Dumpster Fire’ Funding Bill
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Congress Struggles to Reach Deal to Avert Government Shutdown
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GOP Hardliners Say Border Bill Should Come Before Tax Cuts
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Five Debate Moments that Changed Elections
By Robert Speel, The ConversationEvery presidential election year in my American Political Campaigns and Elections course, I get an opportunity to spend a full lecture discussing with students some of the famous moments from...
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Lois Lerner Is Cleared, Sparking Conservative Fury
By Rob GarverConcluding that “poor management is not a crime,” the Justice Department on Friday informed members of Congress that it would not be filing criminal charges against anyone in what has become known as...
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GOP Leaders Take on Far Right Pressure Groups
By Eric PianinThere have been plenty of theories about why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) strode onstage at a conservative gathering late last week carrying a rifle. Ostensibly, McConnell, the 72-...
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Romney: If Hillary Runs, She Won’t Need Bill
By Thomas Ferraro, ReutersFailed 2012 U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said on Sunday he expects Hillary Clinton to win or lose the White House on her record, not that of her husband, former Democratic...
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Voters Give a Thumbs-Down to Their Own Lawmakers
By Eric PianinIn another sign of public outrage over a dysfunctional and politically divided Congress, a record low percentage of registered voters now say their own House member deserves another chance while even...
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Huckabee Must Have Missed the Memo About The Sexes
By Eric PianinFormer Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee must have missed the memo. Last month, national Republican officials and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) began offering lawmakers sensitivity training and...
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Analysts Dubious About Christie’s Presidential Hopes
By Rob GarverNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie left the door open to a presidential run t hius inauguration Tuesday, but emerging scandals may leave him hamstrung before the race even begins.
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Dems’ Prospects of Winning the House Get Dimmer
By Eric PianinThe Democrats’ prospects for winning back control of the House this fall never were good to begin with, but the sudden rash of announced retirements of veteran Democrats will make that effort even...
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Two Politicians Who Beat Scandal – And One Who Didn’t
Christie Can Use These Pols ‘Comeback Playbooks’
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Christie Scandal Opens Door to Far Right GOP Hopefuls
By Eric Pianin and Rob GarverIn the space of a single day, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie went from prospective front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 to damaged goods. His rivals just got a big...
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Rand Paul Edges Out Marco Rubio in CPAC Straw Poll
By Samuel P Jacobs, ReutersConservative activists picked Senator Rand Paul on Saturday as their preferred presidential nominee for 2016, in an early but often unreliable snapshot of the Republican Party's base.
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The Big Data Advantage: Can Republicans Catch Up?
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesThe Republicans are now talking in earnest about the virtues of Big Data – because they have to.
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Why Newt Gingrich Could Be the GOP's Mr. Fix It
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesNewt Gingrich, in an interview with The Fiscal Times, says he knows what the Republican Party needs to do to start fixing itself: “You need inclusion, not outreach. Outreach is when five white guys...
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7 Senate Seats Most at Risk—Hint: They’re All Blue
By Eric PianinPolitical handicappers are casting their gaze to the 2014 campaign, when Republicans once again will try to overtake the Democratic majority. And just as the Republicans began the 2012 campaign cycle...
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Down, Not Out: The GOP on a Campaign of Reinvention
By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal TimesIt’s worth repeating that all political parties are coalitions of people with diverse interests and priorities. What holds them together is one thing and one thing only – a desire to achieve...