Roger Ailes is full of self-righteous outrage that the Department of Justice subpoenaed Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal emails. It's a recent conversion after leading a news network that has been calling for criminalizing journalism for years.
President Obama's biggest problem used to be that he wasn't schmoozing with Congress. His biggest problem now is that he's schmoozing with Congress. Who gave him such terrible advice? The very same reporters who were demanding he get snacks with senators in the first place, obviously.
Schumer's place-holder bill emerged from the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, but on a narrow, party-line vote. That leaves Schumer searching for an authentically conservative co-sponsor who might provide some cover on background checks.
Ryan's 91-page budget is not a budget document; it is a political baseline. From that standpoint, it's already a success. But here's what it actually looks like.
President Obama is headed to Capitol Hill this week, starting Tuesday afternoon, in his continued pursuit of that mythical grand bargain — taking a page from the playbook of the greatest president who never lived.
Ryan defends his plan to cut $5 trillion in government spending over 10 years by saying it will create jobs, and dismisses critics of his budget by suggesting they're blowing things out of proportion. But the world already has hard evidence that he's wrong on both counts.
In case you missed the most boring hack in the history of hacking — unless you're worried about the terms of Kim Kardashian's mortgage (it's 30 years!) — allow us to get you up to speed.
If you are easily surprised, you will be surprised to learn that former senator Joe Lieberman (D-I-Conn.) has taken a position with a conservative think tank in Washington.
Judd knows she needs to convince party leaders that her perceived vulnerabilities — her Hollywood career, her outspokenness — can be turned into strengths in an expensive race. So she'll need the Democratic establishment to believe in her as much as she believes in herself... just as soon as both sides are ready.
Repealing Obamacare is impossible in the near term, so why does Paul Ryan's budget assume it's repealed? To keep a little more than a dozen guys happy.
A bipartisan group of senators has reached a tentative agreement to create a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, but that path is filled with stuff both parties usually reject as intolerable for American citizens.
After doing five Sunday talk shows to promote his new pre-campaign book, Jeb Bush got tired of being asked if he's going to run for president in 2016.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Sunday's episode of Girls was about pain. Physical, mental, and emotional pain, and all three, together. And most of all, the pain of watching people in pain.
Jeb Bush shoots down 2016 questions from all six major Sunday talk shows, while also discussing his ever-evolving stance on immigration reform along the way. (Also: crack addicts.) And Paul Ryan discloses his new budget operates under the assumption Obamacare will be repealed.
Christine Quinn made the obvious official Sunday morning: she's going to run for Mayor of New York City. She will potentially be the first lady and first openly LBGT person to rule the city that never sleeps.
Occasionally, the job of the President is to tell jokes. He was tasked with being funny at a dinner party last night at the 128th annual Gridiron Club and Foundation dinner. It helps that he's not all that bad at it.
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice may get the last laugh. Republicans won't be able to stop her from claiming her consolation prize, which, if a new report proves to be accurate, will be as the head of national security.
Fox News has a tendency to worship the Founding Fathers as not pretty-cool-but-flawed revolutionaries, but demi-gods. And yet, when Fox & Friends brings on an actor to pretend to be Thomas Jefferson, co-host Gretchen Carlson talks to him like he's an idiot child.
It is a symbolic thing, but the White House got the symbolism wrong. Especially after the whole Rand Paul thing.
No, Jon Stewart didn't deliver one of his signature rants against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Rather, the Daily Show host's advice is set to appear in Rumsfeld's forthcoming tome of advice, Rumsfeld's Rules.
President Obama is finally having the dinner parties that Washington is so obsessed with in an attempt to get some Republicans to support a deal to replace the sequester that includes more tax revenue.
Turns out the Daily Caller landing its story on Senator Robert Menendez may have had less to do with dogged reporting than the ability to ignore what now at least three other media outlets that passed on the story say they could not: credibility problems.
Gun groups have increased a push for teachers to be armed across the country since just after the shootings, but South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed the first law to allow teachers to carry guns in school since December.
It looks like the dirt-digging campaign might not have scared her off after all: According to an "insider" interviewed by Fox News, the actress is seriously considering running against Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell in 2014.
As the most high-profile al-Qaeda trial in New York City since 9/11 began with high tension, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith made his first appearance in a Manhattan courtroom Friday to face charges of conspiracy to kill Americans.
The new conventional wisdom is that Sen. Rand Paul's 13-hour filibuster laid bare this week the divisions within the Republican party between the hawkish old guard and the insurgent young guns. The new conventional wisdom is wrong.
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Colbert declared that North Korea's bizarre video showing a man dreaming about the destruction of New York to the tune of "We Are the World" proves that "we are in a dreams race." What with Pyongyang's recent threats and all, he retaliated with a dream of his own.
Bill Clinton does most things right. His entire life, the former president's done nothing but succeed tremendously at everything he does. But even Bubba messes up sometimes.
Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, announced his retirement from the Senate on Thursday evening. Until 2014, he'll work hard as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, but after that, it's time to relax.
Rand Paul declared victory Thursday when his 13-hour filibuster forced Attorney General Eric Holder to answer his question of whether the government can kill by drone an American citizen now engaged in combat on American soil. But that victory was fairly narrow.
The lesson of James O'Keefe's latest legal problem might be: it can be far more expensive to consult a lawyer after the fact than before. Had O'Keefe checked California law, he might have avoided a $100,000 bill for videotaping at an ACORN office near San Diego.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee somewhat belatedly launched a fundraising pitch tied to Rand Paul's filibuster. As of this afternoon, they'd raised about $75,000 — or about a dollar for each of the 76,470 words Paul spoke.
The Conservative Political Action Conference, scheduled for March 14 in National Harbor, Maryland, will host a gay rights panel — but not in the way you might think.
Attorney General Eric Holder has answered Sen. Ran Paul's question of whether the government can use a drone to kill an American citizen on American soil if that person is not engaged in combat: "The answer to that question is no."
Sen. Lindsey Graham cares more about Benghazi than John Brennan, but more about drones than Benghazi.
While Rand Paul used a filibuster to draw attention to Obama's drone program, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz saw an opportunity to draw attention to their 2016 brands. This is most obvious in their choice of strange pop-culture references.
In a subtlety-laden opinion piece, Jim Messina outlined the amendments to Organizing for Action's plans. Here's what has changed and what hasn't in response to critiques.
Gun victims will get a vote, but not the one an overwhelming majority of Americans say they want. That's because the NRA is winning the shouting match on Capitol Hill, and it may have just squashed cooperation in favor of a less strict bill.
During the first seven hours of his filibuster yesterday, Rand Paul used the word "drone" in a military context more than any two-year Congressional term in history — and more than it had been used in the Congressional Record prior to the 112th Congress, combined.
President Obama will continue to woo Republicans over meals — and to woo editorial pages that have demanded more schmoozing by releasing vague details about those meals — by lunching with Ryan on Thursday. Details are scarce, and that's kind of the point.
To demonstrate just how divided we are politically, the Daily Show host took Republicans to task over their resistance to spending on universal preschool — and their desire for more spending on the military.
President Obama descended upon the Jefferson Hotel, "a neutral gathering place," Wednesday night for a secretive dinner date with a group of GOP senators. Encouragingly, a food fight did not ensue.
Here we have a government agency imploring Congress to let it save money by curtailing service, and the House GOP on Wednesday afternoon rejected the idea. In nearly any other context, that would be inexplicable. But: mail!
On Wednesday afternoon, despite Governor Mike Beebe's best intentions, the Arkansas House and Senate passed the most restrictive abortion law in the country — indeed, perhaps the greatest legal challenge to Roe v. Wade in its 40 years of existence. But abortion rights groups were waiting right outside the Capitol in Little Rock, ready with promises of an instant lawsuit.
Mitt Romney, businessman, is back in action. According to NBC News, the former presidential candidate and private equity baron has been hired by Solamere Capital, a Massachusetts-based PE firm co-founded and run by his son, Tagg.
On Wednesday, Media Matters' Simon Maloy noticed another stunning Tucker Carlson contradiction: the Daily Caller founder once adamantly opposed reporting on senators and prostitutes.
It's easy to make fun of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul riffing on drones and other stuff for hours on the Senate floor on Wednesday, but it's also something to celebrate.
The sequester has gone into effect, and no deal has materialized, so Obama is working behind the scenes to woo people on Capitol Hill. Or at least, the White House is waging a PR offensive to get op-ed writers to praise him for doing so. And there's good reason to be skeptical.
Rand Paul spent Wednesday doing something you don't see often enough in Washington — he made an honest-to-goodness, non-stop filibuster speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, all-out and Mr. Smith-style. And he had a lot to say about drones.
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