MSNBC.com. Carrie Dann writes: For the second time this month, the NBC/WSJ poll results show that the Tea Party has a net negative rating. In the latest poll released today, 36 percent of responde...

By Dan Balz and Jon CohenWashington Post Staff, September 7, 2010. Republicans are heading into the final weeks of the midterm campaign with the political climate highly in their favor, accor...

By Lori Montgomery, Washington Post, August 25, 2010. A rapidly weakening economy threatens to undermine President Obama's assertion that he has set the nation on a path to prosperity and, wi...

Time.com, By Mark Halperin. In a move as predictable as Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, Democrats are using Social Security scare tactics to gain ground before the November elec...

By Dan Eggen, Washington Post Staff, July 28, 2010. Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation requiring fuller disclosure of the money behind political advertising, derailing a major White...

By Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post Staff, April 28, 2010. Will voters punish Republicans this fall for constantly slowing down the work of Congress? As Senate Republicans banded together over th...

TalkingPointsMemo.com, TPMCafe, By Jeremy Gruenbaum, April 27, 2010. After reading your post "Who closed the conservative mind?" I felt compelled to write. To introduce myself, I'm 24, Boston born...

  By Ruth Marcus, Washington Post - Columns, April 21, 2010. My approach on the filibuster is the same as Bill Clinton's on affirmative action: mend it, don't end it. Here are 4 1/2 steps to ...

By Philip Rucker and Chris Cillizza, Washington Post Staff, April 7, 2010. As the Republican National Committee announced that it had recorded its best March fundraising ever in a midterm election...

By Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn, The New York Times, March 22, 2010. WASHINGTON - House Democrats approved a far-reaching overhaul of the nation's health system on Sunday, voting over unanimo...

By Paul Kane, Lori Montgomery and Ben Pershing, Washington Post Staff, March 20, 2010. Democratic leaders persuaded four more House members Friday to support a landmark health-care bill after init...

By Dan Zak, Washington Post Staff. Furious at the tempest over the Tea Party -- the scattershot citizen uprising against big government and wild spending -- Annabel Park did what any American does...

By Jim Spencer and Curtis Ellis, Los Angeles Times, Opinion, February 24, 2010. A poll debunks assumptions about the movement, showing that it's largely middle-class, college educated, white and m...

Huffington Post, Posted: February 21, 2010. During the roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week," Arianna responded to retiring Sen. Evan Bayh's (D-Ind.) claim that the major problem in Washingto...

By DAVID BARSTOW, The New York Times, February 15, 2010. SANDPOINT, Idaho - Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing progra...

By ADAM NAGOURNEY, The New York Times, February 15, 2010. WASHINGTON - Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana announced on Monday that he would not seek re-election, sending a wave of distress over his fell...

Editorial, The New York Times, February 12, 2010. The jobs bill emerging in the Senate is pathetic, both as a response to joblessness and as an example of legislation deemed capable of winning bip...

  By Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post, February 5, 2010. President Obama lamented the "erosion of civility" in the nation's political debate, telling an audience Thursday at the &nbs...

  By Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza, Washington Post Staff, Tuesday, January 19, 2010.   Democrat Martha Coakley's struggle to stave off a potentially devastating defeat in Tuesday's ...

Ezra Klein, Washington Post, January 12, 2010. According to Congressional Quarterly, President Obama "did better even than legendary arm-twister Lyndon Johnson in winning congressional votes on is...

Washington Post, December 15, 2009. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If the U.S. Congress fails to agree on a healthcare bill soon, the opportunity for a sweeping overhaul of the $2.5 trillion system will b...

By Jon Cohen and Dan Balz, Washington Post Staff, November 30, 2009. The Republican rank and file is largely in sync with GOP lawmakers in their staunch opposition to efforts by President Obama a...

By Dan Balz, Washington Post Staff, November 4, 2009. Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed ...

By Ellen Nakashima and Paul Kane, Washington Post Staff, October 30, 2009.  House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in in...

By Dan Eggen, Washington Post, October 27, 2009. The nation's preeminent seniors group, AARP, has put the weight of its 40 million members behind health-care reform, saying many of the proposals w...

By Shailagh Murray and Lori MontgomeryWashington Post, October 27, 2009. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid announced Monday that he will include a government-backed insurance plan in the c...

By Paul Kane and Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, October 26, 2009. It takes a while for most start-up companies to gain the confidence of a U.S. congressman and the promise of federal fund...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senate Democratic leaders met Thursday night with White House officials to consider including a government-funded public health insurance option, along with a provision allowin...

By Michael D. Shear, Washington Post Staff, Tuesday, October 20, 2009. The White House is moving aggressively to remove the U.S. Chamber of Commerce from its traditional Washington role as the chi...

True Slant, Rick Ungar, October 17, 2009. On the night of the ‘Super Tuesday' presidential primaries, Barack Obama stood before a cheering crowd in Chicago and proclaimed, "We are the ones w...

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, The New York Times, October 14, 2009. WASHINGTON - As the White House and Congressional leaders turned in earnest on Wednesday to working out big differences in ...

By Lori MontgomeryWashington Post Staff, Monday, September 28, 2009. Republicans, Not Interest Groups, Fight Plans to Cut $400 Billion Over 10 Years - After years of trying to cut Medicare spendin...

By MONICA DAVEY, New York Times, September 28, 2009. ST. PAUL - In more than a dozen statehouses across the country, a small but growing group of lawmakers are pressing for state constitution...

By Alec MacGillis, Washington Post Staff, Friday, September 4, 2009. LA CROSSE, Wis. -- This city often shows up on "best places to live" lists, but residents say it is also a good place to die --...

By John Leaver, Media Recruiter, Linkedin Member who read Mac's blog on Healthcare reform and commented on healthcare in the UK. Here are John's comments:   I thought your article was inter...

AsTimeGoesBy.net, by Crabby Old Lady, August 24, 2009. After following the debate on health care reform this summer, if it were up to Crabby Old Lady, she would require an IQ test for the privileg...

  By Scott Wilson and Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, May 22, 2009.  President Obama and former vice president Richard B. Cheney yesterday gave the country the...

By JAKE TAPPER, JON KARL and KAREN TRAVERS, May 21, 2009. President Obama today strongly defended his administration's terrorism policies and his decision to close the U.S. detention center at G...

By Jennifer Liberto, CNNMoney. May 14, 2009. WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- What do guns have to do with credit cards? Not much. Except they both share space on a bill that lawmakers want to deliv...

Ben Smith at Politico. April 23, 2009. By Jonathan Cohn. It's been in the works for a while and now, according to senior Capitol Hill staffers, it's a done deal: The final budget resolution will i...

CNN) -- President Obama on Thursday unveiled a $3 trillion-plus budget that he says will halve the federal deficit by the end of his first term. The budget for fiscal year 2010 includes substantia...

Ambitious Agenda Balances Hope Against Realism by Peter Baker, New York Times, February 25, 2009 The president sought to convince Americans that now is the right time for expanding aspirati...

Obama's Revised Plan for Industry Aid Could Result in Nationalization By Binyamin Appelbaum and David Cho - Washington Post, Tuesday, February 24, 2009   The Obama administration yesterda...

Should Roland Burris, the newly appointed Illinois Senator, resign?   February 20, 2009 (CNN) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn called Friday for Sen. Roland Burris to resign. Sen. Roland Burris...

By JOCELYN NOVECKAP National Writer   When George W. Bush lifts off in his helicopter on Inauguration Day, leaving Washington to make way for Barack Obama, he may not be the only thing disa...

  By Jon Cohen and Jennifer AgiestaWashington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, December 16, 2008; Page D08     Most Americans continue to oppose a government-backed rescue plan for De...

Protestors across Iraq are urging the Iraqi Government to free the television reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush. Read more by clicking on the link below.   http://www.cnn.com/2...