By any conceivable standard, this has been a grueling month. The term War on Terror was given new significance as it became clear that enemy combatants do not exclusively hatch their plots over there.
The George W. Bush presidential library takes the laziest path imaginable towards the rewriting history of Bush's disastrous eight years in office.
Santorum predicts the collapse of the GOP if it does repent of its recent moves toward the social center, most notably on gay marriage. No one cares.
There are many ways in which Roger Ebert's philosophies serve as a blueprint for course correction that the hopelessly adrift GOP so badly requires.
It has been ten years since the invasion of Iraq , and conservatives are still trying to spin the war to the American people.
The supposedly liberal-leaning Grey Lady has bestowed the gift of cover for House charlatans who would like you to forget they continue to serve the same warmed over plate.
What is really behind the Republican party's incremental about face on the subject of same-sex marriage? It's all about the money.
Why is it continually viable to discuss making the economy work for business, without any concern for the people who are responsible for the flush state of a company's bottom line?
Former Romney top strategist, Stuart Stevens has joined a growing chorus of GOP leaders who seem to be waking up the simple unpopularity of the party platform.
A Republican candidate of any color may still have to adopt the 2012 losing strategy in Mitt Romney.
Republicans don't want you to know this, but Obamacare is working. The cost of healthcare is slowing, and Obamacare is reducing the deficit.
While Paul's flippant tweet is certainly insensitive to the victim's grieving family at best, the former congressman does make a couple of spot-on observations.
Internal criticism is running wild as sane Republicans try to take back control of their party from the crazies who hijacked it after the 2008 election.
It can't escape our collective liberal notice that by any standards this was a very bad week for the Republican Party and its stubbornly quaint platform.
While William Paul has never run for public office, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, does it?
At the inception of President Obama's second term, with looming fights in front of us over a host of issues, it is time for members of the media to surrender their own manufactured centrism.
After they failed in 2012, Republicans turn their attention towards destroying the middle class in 2013.
It seems as if the deficit is being used as a bargaining ploy by the Republicans. This ploy is being used against a president who is being distracted by the growing crisis of mass public executions.
The Republican Party is very close to relegating itself to the political backwoods in perpetuity. Did they not get the message on Election Day that Americans want solutions?
It's the little things during the holiday season that bring such simple joy. Like seeing Mitt Romney's campaign merchandise littering up bargain bins across America.
The greatest example of petty taunting and counter-productivity since the 7th grade lunch table returns to Capitol Hill today, fresh off President Obama's re-election.
No matter who emerges victor (Obama) today is a day for celebrating ourselves and our participation in the democratic process. We survived a tough four years
Chris Christie is openly defying his party by praising President Obama's handling of Hurricane Sandy one week before Election Day.
Mitt Romney has spent years undermining his own credibility with female voters and there's no reason, particularly after Monday night's showing, to trust him now.
Ryan's budget plan is heartless, bad for America and when properly scrutinized, indefensible. At the VP debate, Joe Biden will keep smiling and watch the young kid strangle himself.
If you like the work of the NFL's replacement refs, then you'll love how Mitt Romney will govern the country if he win the election in November.
Romney is staring down the barrel of video evidence that he just doesn't give a damn about Americans occupying social positions outside the privileged one percent, and he doesn't deserve forgiveness.
All things considered, it's sort of tough to comprehend how the polls like the recent Yahoo!/Esquire numbers don't skew much father left.
President Obama's real mission tonight is to do the one thing he has failed to do over the partisan screaming of the last few years: tout his MAJOR accomplishments.
Drinking games to liven up the GOP convention.Take a shot every time a speaker calls Obama a socialist! Do a keg stand for each each personality present who represents an assault on women's rights!
Paul Ryan is proof that the compassionate conservatives amongst us don't appear to have a lot of respect for individual liberty when it comes to reproductive decision-making.
Women will have their revenge at the ballot box this Fall. And we'll enjoy the spectacle of the GOP's mystified Wednesday morning quarterbacking when it's all over.
Dick Cheney, popped out of his cryogenic chamber to remind the voting public that there are still plenty of Stateside imbroglios to which candidate Romney must attend.
Romney claims he ignorant of his investments, but rest assured, he hasn't dodged any taxes. How do we know this? Because he says so. In other words, his finances are none of our business.
Not even conservative water carrier David Brooks can sell the non-existent Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
So what did happen with Roberts anyway? Was his a vote cast to mitigate the public impression that the SCOTUS is too politically partisan to continue assessing objective questions of law and liberty?
If some of the biggest Republican names are unable to publicly condone Romney's candidacy, why should the mainstream voter be any different?
The mystery of the disappearing workforce is owing not to the President's leadership but to eight previous years of treasury looting and voodoo economic policy.
Obama enjoys a staggering 34-point lead over Mitt Romney amongst Latino voters, but their aversion to Romney amongst Latinos is not entirely the Dull One's doing.
After Obama's rousing start to what is sure to be a long general election campaign, before the boredom of the Romney veepstakes could set in, two very awesome things occurred.
There's a funny thing about austerity measures. When adopted alone without a balanced approach to short-term and long-term economic stimuli, they don't work.
The claims Obama is a war on terror egomaniac, but how could Obama out-display hubris of a flight-suit wearing Dubya standing aboard an aircraft carrier declaring a "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq?
It isn't possible for Mitt Romney to shake the Etch-A-Sketch hard enough to make the nation's women forget the attacks on their rights this year.
Opposition to the individual mandate has nothing to do with civil liberties and (surprise!) everything to do with avarice and political power.
The right is attempting to have it both ways on gas prices. They are protecting Big Oil's profits, while blaming President Obama for the high price of gas.
Illinois GOP voters go to the polls today to choose from ideologically amorphous bore Mitt Romney, stubborn fungus Newt Gingrich and political punchline Rick Santorum.
This week Republican primary co-front runner Mitt Romney demonstrated once again that neither he, nor his increasingly radical political party give a fig about the quality of life of America’s middle class. Multiple media outlets reported Romney’s compassionately conservative response to a struggling college student who queried him at a town hall meeting about the profoundly unaffordable costs of a college degree in the 21st Century.
Women on the right have been curiously silent during an assault on life and liberty that shows no sign of abating.