GQ has a new interview with Michael Steele, in which the embattled RNC chairman says that he is pro-choice: GQ: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion? STEELE: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice. […] GQ: Are you saying you don’t want to overt...

While former President George W. Bush has kept a low profile since vacating the Oval Office, many of his closest allies have been working hard to “set the record straight” about a presidency recently ranked by historians as one of the worst ever. Last month, all 20 Texas Republicans in t...

Last night on Fox News, the Special Report “All-Star Panel” discussed a new Washington Institute for Near East Policy report calling for tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Panel regulars Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes naturally argued that the U.S. should inste...

Just days before the Inauguration, Rush Limbaugh famously declared, “I hope [Obama] fails.â€� Since then, some conservatives have been hesitant to embrace this view. Pat Robertson said, “That was a terrible thing to say.” “Anybody who wants him to fail is an idiot,” sai...

Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted that in an interview with the Real Clear Politics, Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) was asked about the “view that perhaps Republicans are rooting for President Obama to fail. “Anybody who wants him to fail is an idiot,” Sanford responded. The question was a ...

AEI’s Fred Kagan, the architect of the Iraq surge, has a history of grossly misreading events on the ground in Iraq. In August 2007, amidst the height of skyrocketing violence in Iraq, Kagan claimed that “sectarian deaths” were “way down.” After Baghdad had been virtual...

In 2008, Anh “Josephâ€� Cao became the only non-Hispanic minority in the GOP. With the party struggling to shed its all-white image, the Republican leadership quickly embraced the first Vietnamese member of Congress. In a memo called “The Time Is Cao,” House Minority Leader John Boehne...

As ThinkProgress has noted, many intransigent right-wing conservatives are now placing blame at President Obama’s feet for not having acted in a bipartisan manner. For example, here’s what a spokesman for Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) — who just yesterday was taking pot shots at the labor union ...

For the past two months, President Obama has bent over backwards to act in a bipartisan manner to solicit Republican support for an economic recovery package. “The monopoly on good ideas does not belong to a single party,� Obama told Republican and Democratic leaders in a closed-door meeting bef...

Last week, the House passed its version of the economic recovery package, despite unanimous Republican opposition. Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) wrote in an op-ed for Politico that the caucus had a “duty” to reject economic ideas that they believe are unlikely to lead to economic reco...