Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson again attacked House Republicans for their approval of a 2015 fiscal year budget for his department that would cut funding for President Barack Obama’s immigration programs. Obama, determined to keep his immigration programs in place, would kill the House bill, which would leave DHS without funding.
Despite the presence of Republican presidential contenders in the Golden State this weekend, a pair of Field Polls released late last week look grim for the GOP. One shows President Barack Obama’s approval rating among likely voters in the Golden State rising to 57%, “the best appraisal of Obama in over two years by Californians.” The other shows that fewer than one in five Californians approve of Congress, and a near-majority say Republican control of both houses of Congress is a bad thing.
Friday at the Democratic National Committee’s 2015 Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama struck a highly partisan tone, laughing out loud at Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) suggesting the Republicans need to do more to reach out to minorities
A fissure erupting between private and pubic labor unions may pave the way for a GOP presidential candidate in 2016. On two significant issues, the differences between the private unions and Barack Obama have become public; the Keystone XL Pipeline and Obamacare’s tax on so-called Cadillac health insurance plans.
CPAC is coming up next week. And it’s going to look much different than in recent years. This year, the hosts have vowed to focus on three crucial elements of conservatism first outlined by Ronald Reagan.
A recent Politico article is pointing to two “embarrassing” technological issues that have apparently hampered Jeb Bush’s budding presidential exploratory campaign. The two issues in question are the firing of Bush’s tech guy, Ethan Czahor, who was fired after his
After hiring a well-known Romney operative in New Hampshire to “help him on his upcoming book tour,” Senator Marco Rubio is really starting to look like someone who is focused on running for president in 2016.
The Politico’s newbie reporter Marc Caputo, posted a story about Rubio’s side job of teaching college students, where he talks about … what else? Politics.
Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock’s week just got a little worse after one of his staffers was forced to resign for a series of posts over several years on his Facebook account comparing African-Americans to “zoo animals” engaged in a “mating ritual” and attacking them as “hood rats.”
When I read the report that Sen. Ted Cruz is going to oppose President Obama’s nomination of Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General, I thought, “There’s a gutsy choice.” I mean, who doubts that Cruz will be bombarded, once again, by the usual liberal hit-men, from Jon Stewart to E.J. Dionne to Rachel Maddow?
The Republican-controlled Senate voted overwhelmingly to build the long-awaited Keystone XL pipeline on Thursday–and they brought along nine Democrats, as well.
According to a Gallup poll released on Thursday, demographic shifts in age may favor Republicans over time.
Many Republicans want new blood, and while they think Romney is a swell guy, they feel his time has passed, and that Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, or some other like-minded candidate would have a better shot of defeating the Democrat nominee in 2016.
Billionaires Charles and David Koch, the libertarian-minded brothers who have become a major force in funding center-right political causes for over a decade, are set to spend nearly $900 million on the coming 2016 election cycle, a report leaked from inside their organization says.
House Republicans, worried about losing their majority in 2016, have caved to the pro-abortion lobby.
Thursday at the University of Kansas, President Barack Obama accused Republicans of “pretending” major issues simply don’t exist. Obama said, “What you can’t do is simply pretend that issues like child care or student debt aren’t out there. That they
A new CBS poll reveals that 44 percent of Republicans do not want New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to enter the Republican primary.
Obama appears to be doing more to shape the political landscape ahead of the 2016 presidential election than helping the American middle class.
On Friday, the Republican National Committee announced the dates and sponsors for its nine sanctioned debates from August 2015 through March 1, 2016.
This article was originally posted in The Spectator and written by Alex Massie: The suggestion Mitt Romney might make another run for the Presidency of the United States made me think of a line from one of my father’s novels: ‘There’s
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer gave his first “State of the City” address Wednesday night, touting his accomplishments since being elected to the position last February, and laying out his vision for the year ahead–including plans for a new Chargers
Florida Congressman Richard Nugent (R), fresh off being booted from his seat on the House Rules Committee for opposing Speaker John Boehner in the recent Speaker of the House election, delivered a magnificent gutting of Boehner by calling out the Speaker’s missteps and poor leadership.
One of the major consequences of the massive GOP victory in 2014 is the recharging of the anti-abortion movement and its pro-life legislation in state Houses across the country. The GOP won 11 legislative chambers previously held by Democrats, raising their total to 68 across the country, as opposed to 30 for Democrats.
By some reports, Democrats may attempt to use the terror attacks in Paris to try and stop the Republicans from using budget negotiations for the Department of Homeland Security as a means to put a crimp in the President’s amnesty plans.
House Republicans claim that next week they’ll vote on a plan to block some parts of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, but the president has insisted that he will veto any bills that make it to his desk that might curtail his amnesty plans.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) writes in the Huffington Post that the Republican Party only represents white Christians because of the demographics of its members in the House of Representatives.
Curt Schilling, whose stock rose in the Hall of Fame vote this year as his percentage of the vote increased from 29% in 2013 to 39% this year, asserted that he hurt his chances for enshrinement by his outspoken support for the Republican Party.
One has to give Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) credit for trying to push an anti-American agenda as the minority party in Congress.
Because of a recent scandal that damaged Republican House Whip Steve Scalise, Speaker John Boehner (R, OH) has been reduced to making personal phone calls in order to drum up enough support to be returned to his leadership role as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Fox News contributor and Democratic pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that up to one-third of Republicans are ready to call it quits as members of the GOP.
The Washington Post’s Philip Bump learned the hard way what happens when one assumes something and posts it on social media. He received backlash for his ignorance of Michigan’s controlling party.
Columnist Pat Buchanan and US News and World Report Chairman and Editor-in-Chief and publisher of The New York Daily News, Mort Zuckerman declared the Republican Party the winners of the year and President Obama the loser of the year on Friday’s “McLaughlin
A new NBC News-Wall Street Journal survey shows that Chris Christie is at the bottom of the pack among the 2016 GOP hopefuls, with the fewest number of voters saying they could support him for the nomination. The December 10
