Newt Gingrich is right. Republican campaign consultants are probably the dumbest, most short-sighted unimaginative pedestrian minds working in politics today. And, in hindsight, even while acknowledging the great job he did in 2004, I think I’ll lay some of the blame at the feet of Karl Rove a...

Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Hillary Rodham Clinton, two of the most influential members of the Senate, said goodbye to their colleagues yesterday, while the chamber welcomed Illinois's Roland W. Burris, a man it had tried to keep out....

The Battered New York Times Originally uploaded by Madison Guy New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Maureen Dowd So The Old Grey Lady Op-Ed column has good things to say about Caroline Kennedy in her quest to become appointed as the next Senator from the great State of New York (the paper, certainly not M...

Famous racist Trent Lott is, more or less, a god. He may not be a senator anymore, and he may not like black people — I mean, HE REALLY HATES THEM! — but he definitely was, you know, a legislator for many years. To honor his legacy, various county chambers of commerce in Mississippi are ...

After 35 years in the U.S. Congress, Mississippi Republican Trent Lott officially stepped down from the U.S. Senate last night after casting a series of late votes.  Once at the pinnacle of power as Senate Majority Leader, he is famous for saying at former Segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond̵...

After being grilled by the Senate intelligence committee for more than an hour Tuesday, CIA Director Michael Hayde n went to Vice President Cheney's annual holiday party, where he endured more interrogation for a full 20 minutes from the Fourth Estate....