Last weekend, 18 days after Barack Obama decisively defeated their candidate for president, a mostly Republican crowd of self-described conservatives ...
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
Discussion and speculation abound regarding the sorry state of the Grand Old Party, with its clone-like band of graying White dudes and their backstag...
Politico | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
The Republican U.S. senator sits glumly across the restaurant table. "I don't think we have learned much from the election in terms of what people ...
Beth Arnold | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
With this Palin-style Thanksgiving (smiley face with urge to kill) dancing across my laptop screen, I found myself thinking of home.
CNN Political Ticker | Peter Hamby | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
The Republican Party has hit a new low. Just 34 percent of Americans in a Gallup Poll released Thursday say they have a favorable view of the party, ...
Washington Post | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, who received piles of hate mail during the Presidential campaign for questioning Sarah Palin's credentials, ha...
AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 11.18.2008 | Green
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his international climate change summit on Tuesday by upstaging himself with an even b...
Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 11.18.2008 | Style
The dress, music, drugs and loose morals of the emerging counterculture must have looked to a Sixties puritan like a reversion to chaotic paganism.
Art Levine | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
The never-ending Republican War on Voting continues apace, with new smears against Democrats and Senate candidate Al Franken for alleged voter fraud in the razor-thin race against Norm Coleman.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
The steadily growing number of prospective candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee share a collective dream: that 2008 wi...
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012 as the frontrunner for the GOP presid...
CBS News | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
When asked about the future course of the Republican Party following their losses on Election Day - losing not only the White House but also considera...
236.com | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Politico is asking their panel of pundits this question: "What's the most important first step Republicans should take on the road to recovery?" Not s...
Michael Shaw | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's handling of Sarah Palin yesterday seemed at least partly reflective of a resentment the other governors must be feeling toward their diva counterpart.
John Ridley | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
You buy stocks when they're low. Basically, it's wise to get a bargain when a bargain's to be gotten. So, is now the time to "buy" Republican?
Washington Post | Robert Barnes | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
MIAMI, Nov. 12 -- Republican governors were the brightest spot in an otherwise dispiriting election last week for the GOP, but the chief executives ga...
Bob Cesca | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
If the last seven days have been any indication, the far-right is shaping up to make the 1990s seem quaint -- even erudite by comparison.
AP | BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
MIAMI — Republican governors, down and out after the party's devastating Election Day losses, said Wednesday that the future of the GOP rests wi...
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
The Civil War might be over, but the War Between the States lives on. The good news is that the lingering resentments of that time might have finally lost their political power.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
If the crowds celebrating Obama's victory go home in 2009, his Administration will achieve disappointing results. The President-Elect will confront a variety of national and global crises.
Bob Geiger | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
I see Republicans turning up on Veterans Day with their flowery pronouncements of how much we Vets mean to them when they prove at every turn that they really don't give a damn about the troops.
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
I hate to say this, because President-Elect Obama is setting the example for us to be nice and dignified and stop all the political/cultural warfare t...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
The Republicans must always blame the liberal media for any and all bad publicity their nominee, hopefully Sarah Palin, might receive. This is a winner because it reminds voters who the real enemies are.
AP | SUSAN HAIGH | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
HARTFORD, Conn. — A generation ago the Republican Party was the dominant political force in New England, populating the region's congressional d...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI)...
Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on Campaign Trail...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush's brother Jeb...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
The seventies are back in a big way: shaggy hair, plaid prints and idealism have all...
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns...
It started with the fist bump seen 'round the world. Soon...
A revolutionary device that can harness...
Washington Post | Michael Leahy | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics