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“Busy Obama, Lazy Congress”: The Shiftless Good-For-Nothings In The House...

Since his presidency began, and as of June 14, 2014, President Barack Obama will have made 36 international trips to 47 different countries, in addition to the Vatican and the West Bank. This, in...

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“So When Is The Senate In Recess?”: An Extended Recess Broken Up By Several...

Before the Circuit Court went all activist in the Canning case, everyone thought the question was defining what counted as a “recess.” On that issue, the Supreme Court had a clear answer today: “For...

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“The Senate Comity Brigade Was Wrong”: Democratic Activists Urging Filibuster...

I wrote a few days ago about how the Supreme Court’s decision to bar recess appointments made with less than a 10-day break in Senate proceedings increases the importance of controlling Congress. But...

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“Fighting Bad Science In The Senate”: The Days Of Making A Sport Of Trampling...

The Senate hearing for the Women’s Health Protection Act shows just how important it is for women’s health advocates to push for the facts. The propensity of anti-choice advocates to eulogize false...

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“Rubio vs. Rubio On Immigration Reform”: His New Line Is The GOP Should Get...

Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) has a challenge for which there is no obvious answer. He helped write a popular, bipartisan immigration-reform bill, which his party’s base hates with the heat of a thousand...

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“2014 And The Limits Of Rage”: Voters May Decide That Rage Has Its Limits And...

The short-term future of politics in the nation’s capital will be determined in large part by which party ends up in control of the Senate. But for a sense of the long-term future of politics in the...

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“An Onion Of Crazy”: Republicans Have A Joni Ernst Problem

Throughout the 2014 campaign season, the Iowa Senate seat held by retiring Democrat Tom Harkin has emerged as a surprisingly strong pickup opportunity for the Republican Party. President Barack Obama...

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“A Defeat For American Democracy”: The Senate Tried To Overturn ‘Citizens...

A majority of the United States Senate has voted to advance a constitutional amendment to restore the ability of Congress and the states to establish campaign fundraising and spending rules with an eye...

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“Punish Them At The Polls!”: Paycheck Fairness Act Blocked Again By Senate GOP

Senate Republicans on Monday blocked for the fourth time a bill that would strengthen federal equal pay laws for women. The Paycheck Fairness Act would ban employers from retaliating against employees...

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“The Next Jim DeMint”: Tom Cotton’s Harsh, Unyielding, Judgmental Political...

At The Atlantic, Molly Ball has penned a long profile of Arkansas Senate candidate and U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, and it confirms pretty much all my negative instincts about the dude. Here’s her summary of...

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“They Don’t Have Google In Kentucky?”: White Supremacist Runs For Senate In...

Ahhh, election season. That time between late summer and November when candidates are most likely to knock on your door or send robo-calls to your home; and patches of grass, stabbed with metal-boned...

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“Republican Control Of Senate Not A Slam Dunk”: You Have The Power, Voting...

There is something deeply satisfying about the troubles punditry is having in nailing down exactly what’s happening in the 2014 elections. The careful statistical models keep gyrating on the question...

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“No Meaningful Consequences”: Tom Cotton And The Era Of Post-Truth Politics

A couple of years ago, Mitt Romney developed a bad habit. As part of his national campaign, the Republican nominee would attack President Obama over some perceived failing. Then the attack would be...

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“Dole, Nazis, And Desperation In Kansas”: Pat Roberts’ Oblique-But-Clear...

Weren’t politicians supposed to agree that invoking Hitler is usually a bad idea? Somebody better remind Pat Roberts, the Kansas senator on whom the GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate increasingly...

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“Ted Cruz’s A.G. Fight Already Misguided”: More So Than Usual, Cruz Has No...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) does not believe in wasting time. Less than 24 hours have passed since Attorney General Eric Holder announced he’s stepping down, and at this point, no one seems to have any...

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“Joni Ernst Loves The Constitution, But..”: Republican Senate Candidate...

The Iowa Senate race is one of the closest in the nation, and what it seems to have come down to is the following two questions: Number 1, did Bruce Braley act like a jerk when he and his neighbor had...

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“An Unlikely Opportunity?”: It Could Come Down To Kansas, Where GOP Trails Badly

The news for Democrats in the latest round of Senate polling is sobering: Republicans have +4 point leads in enough states to give them a 50 Senate seats. That’s just one short of what they need to win...

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“Money Grab”: It Gets Worse For David Perdue

Speaking of politically damaging material the New York Times is looking into, Jonathan Weisman today notes the bankruptcy deposition that revealed Georgia GOP Senate candidate David Perdue’s bland...

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“A GOP Takeover? Not So Fast”: There’s Room For Democrats To Make Up Ground...

You’ve seen the ads and heard the robocalls. Yes, it’s election season, and everyone wants to know who will win. In the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republicans will likely hold onto their...

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“Complicated Lies?”: The Amazingly Two-Faced Mitch McConnell

Alison Lundergan Grimes has been getting a lot of grief lately, not least from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which pulled the plug on her campaign yesterday. Her team quickly sent out a...

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