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.
It's not considered very nice to be mean to people just for being fat anymore, but there's a lot of pent-up desire to call fat people fatties that gets unleashed when a fat person like Jim Sensenbrenner really has it coming.
To break down the payroll tax cut and the repercussions of the stalemate into simpler terms, the White House took to Twitter and asked the masses what $40 meant to them and came away with sad snapshots of American life in 2011.
Ron Paul's position on the newsletters with racist statements that were published under his name 20 years ago has changed quite a since then -- in a 1995 interview with CSPAN, for instance, he was pretty proud of them.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Boehner's holiday plans.
Today we have three ads featuring three candidates' wives, and it's impossible not to notice they're all blondes. As a member of this misunderstood community, it's sad to say the blonder the wife, the less effective she is at selling her husband.
Newt Gingrich appears to have a split personality -- one half is a coolly rational, calculating pragmatist and the other is a maniac with a political messiah who is the only one who can oversee the radical transformations Western Civilization must undertake to survive.
Type in NewtGingrich.com and you'll be surprised with the results. Gingrich's campaign will be too!
The payroll tax debate in Congress is violating Reagan's famous Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Pulitzer-winning factchecking operation Politifact shattered its rapport with the liberal media Tuesday after it crowned left-wing attacks on Paul Ryan's Medicare plan the "Lie of the Year" for 2011.
Rick Tyler, who quit Newt Gingrich's campaign when it was in the doldrums only to watch his old boss soar in the polls, is rejoining the Gingrich effort just as the candidate's lead in polls disappears.
Mitt Romney said voters ought to kick President Obama out of the White House because he's got too much experience in Washington now -- but way way back in the ancient history of four years ago, Romney was warning Americans of the dangers of not electing a lifelong politician.
Every other candidate who rose to challenge Mitt Romney as frontrunner of the Republican primary race has lost that spot by saying something stupid except poor Newt Gingrich, who was largely taken down by YouTube.
Sarah Palin hinted she could get in the presidential race Monday, telling Fox Business, "It's not too late for folks to jump in... Who knows what will happen in the future."
The White House is making House Republicans feel its wrath the best way it knows how: Aggressive Photoshopping.
Ron Paul won just 3 percent of the votes in the Tea Party Patriots' "tele-forum and straw poll" Sunday, a pretty poor showing for a guy routinely called "the godfather of the Tea Party."
House Speaker John Boehner says House Republicans are united against a Senate bill to extend the payroll tax holiday but that may be the only way the majority in Congress's lower chamber is unified.
Celebrities always die in threes, and today we have Vaclav Havel, Kim Jong Il, and the presidential aspirations of Newt Gingrich.
Mitt Romney is still second in many polls, but he looks like he's pretty confident that the Republican presidential nomination is his as Republicans work to make the general election a little more easy for him.
It's not just what Newt Gingrich said, but how he said it -- a trap so many men before him have fallen into, but they are usually lucky enough to say it the privacy of their own homes, instead of national TV.
In a plot ripped from a spy novel, the FBI weighed a sting operation against Newt Gingrich in 1997 based on allegations from a shady arms dealer about a bribe.
With 27 hours to go, Congressional leaders signed off on a $1 trillion spending bill late Thursday night to avoid a government shutdown.
In last debate before the Iowa caucuses, Gingrich and Bachmann fight over abortion while Ron Paul does his best to anger every single foreign policy hawk in America.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
It was a key Democratic demand but party leaders abandoned a surtax on millionaires to finance a payroll tax holiday Wednesday night in return for, well, nothing, as of yet.
The editors of the National Review have some good news -- conservatives are unified in what policies they want enacted, and the White House is winnable -- but there's also some bad news: Republican voters are on the verge of nominating a guy who will fail at one or both those things.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
The federal government has begun preparing again for a government shutdown as stalled negotiations over a payroll tax holiday prevent a spending bill from advancing in Congress.
He’s got the best campaign organization in Iowa, hands down, and running second or third in the polls. But Ron Paul is rarely, if ever, described as a first-string Republican contender on par with Gingrich or Mitt Romney.
Newt Gingrich fired his Iowa political director for saying, "A lot of the evangelicals believe God would give us four more years of Obama just for the opportunity to expose the cult of Mormon" in a focus group a day before Gingrich hired him last week.
In the battle for control of the Republican Party, the Imperial establishment scored a couple blows against the rebel Tea Partiers Tuesday.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
Forget the "Welfare Queens" of the 1980s, the GOP has a new scapegoat of government excess: Welfare Millionaires.
There's a group of Republicans eager to nominate a Not Romney candidate but having trouble embracing Newt Gingrich: conservative women who don't like his history of adultery.
We don't want to wait three whole weeks to find out who's going to win the Iowa caucus — or the Republican nomination, for that matter — so historical analogies of primaries past are becoming a political pundit fad.
A risky decision by President Obama to connect the fate of a payroll tax break and an omnibus spending bill will be tested today as the Republican-controlled House votes on the payroll tax proposal.
The friendly presidential debate between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was so friendly -- and therefore free of sparks -- that a reporter was "visibly" asleep in the first 20 minutes, Politico's Ben Smith noticed, and Huntsman himself said he caught his own daughter snoozing about an hour in. But despite the tone, Gingrich managed to throw a few of his signature bombs.
What candidate is witty and smart and experienced enough to expose as a lie the narrative that President Obama is an eloquent orator?
A prominent New Hampshire backer of Jon Huntsman has "severed all bonds" with his campaign over "a ‘lack of integrity and honesty of the parties within the campaign’ regarding financial matters,” NBC News' Jo Ling Kent reports.
Newt Gingrich's campaign comeback is so total that one of dozen staffers who quit is campaign in June is publicly begging to be rehired.
On television, lawmakers in both parties are projecting confidence that a deal to extend a payroll tax break will be reached by year's end but a number of significant disputes remain unresolved.
Jon Stewart rates the Republican presidential candidates as they pander appeal to the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Donald Trump has fallen so far that on Friday Rush Limbaugh discussed the idea, brought by a caller, that the reality star and momentary Republican kingmaker is actually President Obama's "Trojan horse."
If the Republican presidential candidate is to beat President Obama, he or she can't just win over Americans with the power of words or some bipartisan proposals -- there has to be a connection made on a deeper, gut level, even a hormonal level.
Reporters covering the presidential election are girding for a Bush-Kerry-esque battle between Mitt Romney and President Obama. But that's so boring! So now's the time to start fantasizing about more dramatic outcomes.
Being a Republican politician often requires denouncing homosexuality as a threat to the existence to the American family, but staffing a campaign requires hiring gay staffers. That's when the trouble begins.
Newt Gingrich might have sounded supremely confident when he said "I will be the nominee" this month, but his activities 25 days before the first caucuses in Iowa indicate he's still hedging his bets.
With one week left until Congress is scheduled to adjourn for holiday recess, Senate Democrats are considering dropping a millionaire surtax designed to pay for a payroll tax break to 160 million Americans.
Over the last four years Stephen Colbert has transitioned from a comedian who has some opinions on politics to a political activist who's hilarious.
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