In continuing to address "Hurricane Scandy," Stewart had to admit that Republicans has something with the IRS and Benghazi dust-ups. He even proposed teaming up with Fox News! But you know who still doesn't get to take a GOP victory lap? Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
The professional left and the professional right are delusional in their own special way, according to two essays in this week's New York magazine, which can be summed up as "Why can't you people be happy?" vs. "Why are you people happy with this?"
Super Committee Democrats blasted a smaller $643 billion deficit-reduction plan offered by Republicans Friday, a rejection that leaves nothing on the table ahead of Monday's deadline.
The day for making excuses is upon us, as members of Congress begin alerting the Washington press that the 12-member Super Committee will miss its Nov. 23 deadline.
The likelihood of a Super Committee deficit-reduction deal by Nov. 23 depends on a slew of moving parts. But that hasn't prevented banks, politicians and reporters from venturing a guess at the odds of an 11th hour agreement.
We expected a number of uncomfortable questions to be raised during Energy Secretary Stephen Chu's first testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee today and House Republicans did not disappoint.
Despite vociferous claims from leaders in both parties that the Super Committee must not fail, a narrow coalition of actors inside and outside of government are rooting for the deficit-reduction panel to gridlock and fail in its final days of negotiations.
Ron Paul hasn't gotten much attention at recent GOP debates and, as Politico's Dylan Byers reports, that streak may well continue at CNN's next square-off, where he'll be situated on the far right side of your TV screen in Santorum nowhereland.
Today, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee will try their best to draw concessions from Energy Secretary Stephen Chu for his department's support of Solyndra, the first renewable energy company to receive a loan under President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, which has since gone belly up.
Cartoonist Tony Auth's bleak outlook for the nation's Super Committee
Newt Gingrich has so many skeletons in the closet it's not even worth engaging the media on its own terms.
They can't strike a deal so they want to pull a fast one. With only one week left, members of the bipartisan Super Committee are resorting to accounting gimmicks and legislative sleights of hand to magically produce $1.2 trillion in deficit savings without significant tax increases or spending cuts.
After conservatives criticized Herman Cain for his stumbling response to an answer about unions' collective bargaining power, his campaign sent out a press release that's a shorter version of the entire Cain campaign -- not-quite-factual statements, a refusal to offer details, and the hope that everyone will be distracted if he shouts "Ronald Reagan!" loud enough.
Newt Gingrich is at the top of several polls now that almost every other anti-Mitt Romney candidate has flamed out, but is there anyone out there for whom Gingrich is the No. 1 choice?
Jon Huntsman won't ask his billionaire father to dump millions into a political action committee to save his campaign, and his father won't donate unless he's asked, The New York Times' Jim Rutenberg and Nicholas Confessore report.
Rick Perry is perhaps not the best Republican presidential candidate to take up the banner of cleaning the corruption out of Washington, but he's charging ahead anyway.
This is a Daily Show clip that you don't see often: In appraising the latest GOP debate, Jon Stewart had a few semi-agreeable things to say about the foreign policy remarks of candidates he frequently mocks, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum.
The most important part of the latest baffling Herman Cain interview might not be his confused answer on Libya, but what he said to excuse it: "Some people want to say, 'Well as president you have to know everything' -- no, you don't!"
For Republicans, there is no shame in an AOL e-mail address.
The legislators knew it was coming and they came out guns blazing.
The Republican presidential field briefly flirted with attacking Obama for waging too much war before deciding he's not waging quite enough.
The more meat you order on your pizza, the more manly you are, Herman Cain says.
In her first interview since the sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain resurfaced, his wife Gloria told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, "I'm thinking he would have to have a split personality to do the things that she said."
George Will ripped Mitt Romney in the Washington Post the other day, not for the first time. Should he have mentioned that his wife tried and failed to get hired by Romney, and now works for a competitor?
Newt Gingrich has pitched himself as an ideas man his whole career, and now that he's gaining in polls, he suddenly seems smarter than his former top staffers who quit his campaign to work for Rick Perry.
Herman Cain got only one day off from scrutiny while everyone made fun Rick Perry's inability to name all three government agencies so oppressively regulatory they must be abolished.
Friday morning, after a week of Herman Cain pressers and Rick Perry flubs, how did the evolving top tier of GOP contenders shake-up? Well, lets see: CBS News polling finds it to be a three-way race with Cain still holding on to a slim lead, Mitt Romney trailing close behind and a somewhat real "surge" for Newt Gingrich.
Rick Perry offered the "Top 10 Rick Perry Excuses" for his "oops" moment in Wednesday's debate on The Late Show with David Letterman Thursday.
How do you reconcile the fact that a Republican candidate is performing poorly -- embarrassingly, objectively -- with prior beliefs -- passionate, vociferous -- that it's all the liberal media's fault?
Perry went on all three network morning shows Thursday, and forced a grin even as every anchor read the tweets of various Republican consultants that his campaign was dead.
Rick Perry struggled for several agonizing seconds to remember the last of the three federal agencies he'd cut during Wednesday's debate.
Tonight's Republican primary debate in Detroit will be about the economy, which means it will give Herman Cain a chance to talk about something other than how tall various women are. Plus: our liveblog starts around 7 p.m.
They may seem all but forgotten, but there are still seven other presidential candidates trying to get voters to pay attention to them while Herman Cain does inexplicable things on television. These are there stories.
According to new emails released by House Republicans, George Kaiser, a billionaire investor and bundler for President Obama 2008 campaign, says he discussed the now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra with White House officials.
Herman Cain said he's not going to "point any fingers" at who might be conspiring to destroy his reputation with sexual harassment allegations, but the Internet is happy to fill that void.
The community organizing collective ACORN may be disbanded but that doesn't mean Republicans are finished crusading against its former employees and tying them to the left-wing-tinged Occupy Wall Street movement.
Some big conservative initiatives went down to public vote last night as off-year elections produced little drama, but gave hope up to liberal causes heading into 2012.
Herman Cain's assertion that he has no memory of Sharon Bialek's name or face or voice might be a problem for him, given that Bialek says she spoke to Cain at a Tea Party event this year and a witness says she saw the interaction.
If Jon Huntsman's moment in the Republican primary limelight arrives, he will have 46 words and a media-trained woman accusing the nominal frontrunner of groping her to thank.
Sharon Bialek visited the morning shows to explain why she is publicly accusing Herman Cain of sexual harassment. While some interviewers were more sympathetic than others, Bialek stayed on message, with celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred by her side.
Sharon Bialek's smirks aside, the accusations she made, many people have since noted since her press conference, sound not like sexual harassment, but sexual assault.
As the Cain campaign has been consumed by stories of sexual harassment, Newt Gingrich is beating Mitt Romney in Iowa, according to one new poll, and has surged into double digits nationally according to another.
A fourth woman will accuse Herman Cain of sexually harassing her -- on live TV, while showing her face, giving her name, dishing the details, and, perhaps worst of all for the candidate, while being represented by Gloria Allred, the most media-hungry lawyer for women wronged.
Scores of interviews with Iowa Republicans over the weekend turned up scant outrage over the sexual harassment allegations leveled against presidential candidate Herman Cain.
With the benefit of hindsight, Herman Cain's top aide Mark Block knows how he would have contained the story about his candidate's history of sexual harassment claims: he'd do everything the same way, except it would work.
There are other candidates in the Republican presidential race besides Herman Cain, and they are doing things other than denying they had anything to do with leaking his sexual harassment story.
Herman Cain repeatedly insisted that a junior female employee go home with him while they were out with other National Restaurant Association employees one night, according to The New York Times and Politico.
It's only been four days since it was revealed that Herman Cain settled sexual harassment claims when he ran the National Restaurant Association, but the pace at which he's reversed and changed his story only seems to be accelerating.
Mitt Romney says he's "been as consistent as human beings can be" to a New Hampshire newspaper editorial board Thursday, which, if true, means humans are always changing their opinions on abortion.
House Speaker John Boehner appeared flummoxed when he was asked about anti-tax activist Grover Norquist's influence on his party, waiting five seconds before answering, "It's not often I'm asked about some random person."
Perhaps Herman Cain has noticed reporters have started using terms like "snowballing" and "modified limited hangout," a Richard Nixon reference, to refer to allegations of sexual harassment against him, because he's shifted from hoping the story will go away to blaming it on his rivals.
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