John McCain Needs Some New Jokes
Congress has had low approval ratings for so long that Sen. John McCain has been able to recycle the same at least 27 times in the last five years.
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Sen. Dick Durbin blamed Republicans fear of Hillary Clinton dominating the 2016 Presidential election on the obsession with turning Benghazi into a major scandal. He called the whole thing part of the "political show" in the election's build up.
Congress has had low approval ratings for so long that Sen. John McCain has been able to recycle the same at least 27 times in the last five years.
Republicans on Capitol Hill have made up ground in social media after Barack Obama famously put social platforms to use to wrangle in votes in 2008.
Eight years into a grueling, dispiriting conflict that has torn a nation asunder, with countrymen attacking countrymen as traitors, the end seems almost incomprehensible.
"I will freely admit .. it is in response to the president saying we don’t have a proposal," says John McCain
Nicolle Wallace says she was inspired by Palin to write about a mentally ill vice-president
His advice to the new government: stop people from shooting guns in the air
After falling in the polls, she's showing a little schadenfreude at Perry's problems
Jon Huntsman's daughters are following in the footsteps of Meghan McCain
All options being looked at as deadline looms
House GOP unveils two proposals: one authorizes the mission, one sharply scales it back
Latino groups respond with indignation to unsubstantiated claim
Obama's approval ratings are back to 2008 levels, except among young folks
Motorcycle rally members irked at Palin and press for crashing their party
Even if they're not true, observes cartoonist Steve Benson.
Another leaked tidbit arriving from HBO's 'Game Change'
She is not a Stepford wife, thank you very much
The McCains take on Beck after he mocks daughter Meghan's weight
McCain says he's "seen enough dead people," but Feinstein says she "likely will"
As predicted, Obama's original birth certificate has settled nothing for die-hards
Most of the major players have been cast...except for a Barack Obama
Plus: The Apprentice's ratings get stronger; who'll investigate his investigators?
Weighing in: Charlie Sheen, Robert DeNiro, Mike Bloomberg and John McCain
He landed in Benghazi today "to get an on the ground assessment of the situation"
The authors asked her questions. How rude
John McCain said Barack Obama's speech "comforted" the Libyan leader
There's a lot of switching around when it comes to positions on Libya
The presidential candidate's only consistent line: He doesn't like what Obama's doing
Huckabee is following McCain's path toward being the one Republican liberals like
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