Governor Paterson has announced a deal with party leaders that will allow him to withdraw his proposed taxes on non-diet soda, music downloads, porn downloads, movie and concert tickets, golf courses, cigars, massages, beer, wine, and more — all seemingly predicated on a notion of making New Yo...

President Obama issued a directive yesterday that all his predecessors' signing statements — namely, those of President Bush — should be checked with the attorney general before being followed. Signing statements have been used by all presidents to declare opposition to parts of a law they...

Rush Limbaugh has challenged President Barack Obama to a debate, in spite of the fact that Democrats are on the record talking about how they're purposefully blowing up his ego by demonizing him and trying to connect his knee-jerk, hard conservatism with the entire Republican party. (And even though...

Well hello. We missed it, but Ben Bernanke got all hot under the collar when talking about the rescue of AIG at today's Senate Budget Committee hearing in Washington. "If there is a single episode in this entire 18 months that has made me more angry, I can't think of one other than AIG," he said, ad...

Over the weekend, a conspiracy theory began gathering steam in the blogosphere. Late Friday, Playboy published a piece by Mark Ames and Yasha Levine that claimed to have unearthed proof that CNBC reporter Rick Santelli's infamous rant was in fact "the launch event of a carefully organized and sophis...

The massive budget that President Obama outlined yesterday was much more than the first salvo in the new effort for health care reform. Though Congress will certainly change some aspects of Obama's budget as it crafts its own bill, Obama's intends to place much of the burden of funding his policies ...

In a hard-fought victory, the Senate finally passed the contentious economic stimulus package that has fascinated the nation for so many weeks.The final vote was 61–37, with three Republican turncoats crossing the aisle as anticipated. But the constant clamor of inter-party bickering over the ...

It wasn't too long ago that President Obama's transition was being praised as the smoothest thing since Country Crock, and nearly as good for you. His appointments were appropriate, competent, confidence-inspiring. But then the three-headed tax-delinquency monster of Geithner-Killefer-Daschle reared...

Soon-to-be ex-governor Rod Blagojevich stepped in front of the Illinois State Senate earlier today to deliver an emotional powerhouse of a speech before the final vote to remove him from office. Unfortunately, as one might expect from his interviews in recent days, it was also pretty crazy. Througho...

She made it past the Senate, John Cornyn and David Vitter be damned. She's now our secretary of State! You know what this means? Now David Paterson has no more excuses to delay his announcement of who will replace her in the Senate. [CNN] Read more posts by Chris Rovzar Filed Under: early and often,...