It's easy to spot a political embarrassment, but getting rid of one isn't always as simple - something that both parties in the U.S. Senate are now being reminded of. Democrats would just as soon be rid of Roland Burris, the Blagojevich-tainted appointee who is now the subject of investigati...

The G.O.P. is at war with itself. Or so we're told. Unaccustomed to their new minority status and unsure how to handle a Democratic president with enormous popularity and considerable legislative momentum, Republicans are dividing themselves into opposing camps, each convinced that a different formu...

The G.O.P. is at war with itself. Or so we're told. Unaccustomed to their new minority status and unsure how to handle a Democratic president with enormous popularity and considerable legislative momentum, Republicans are dividing themselves into opposing camps, each convinced that a different formu...

Press secretaries tend to be like broken clocks: They're always going to say the same thing, and every once in a while, it happens to be the right thing. Case in point: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who early last week accused the D.C.-based media of being out of touch with the concerns ...

Andrew Cuomo, who now leads a sitting governor by more than 30 points in a potential 2010 primary match-up, is living proof that, for an ambitious politician who knows what to do with it, there really is no better stepping-stone than the office of state attorney general. The job really is an image-m...

On Sunday's "Meet the Press," David Gregory confronted David Axelrod, one of President Obama's chief advisers, with a respected economist's grim conclusion that the stimulus package Obama will sign on Tuesday simply isn't big enough and that the unemployment rate will hover around 10 perce...

Bobby Jindal has been selected to deliver the televised Republican response to Barack Obama's February 24 address to Congress, which means Jindal will now be the subject of a wave of news stories hyping him as a rising national star. Take it away, New York Times: "The Louisiana governor has bec...

Both of Connecticut's U.S. senators were greeted with ominous new poll numbers on Tuesday. The new Quinnipiac University survey showed Chris Dodd, a senator's son who first won election to the upper chamber in 1980, scoring his lowest ever marks and Joe Lieberman trailing by a whopping 28 points in ...

Anyone with a grasp of modern domestic political history should have seen last week's stimulus package impasse in the Senate coming. It was not at all surprising that Republicans loudly demagogued the package as a massive dose of pork, even as their examples of "pork" accounted for a tiny ...

Shortly after the November election, Newt Gingrich disputed the notion that Sarah Palin had emerged from her losing campaign as the new face of the Republican Party, declaring that "she's going to be one of 20 or 30 significant players. She's not going to be the de facto leader." A few mon...