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How the GOP got its groove back

CEDAR CREEK, Texas -- Finding the epicenter of the looming Republican comeback is pretty easy, at least this week. As it happens, you can drive there from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in less than 30 minutes, and with only two turns. Once you ...

From MIKE MADDEN, Salon,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Republican National Committee,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress

What's happening with healthcare reform? Salon explains

Pelosi has taken a fair amount of heat for agreeing to allow a vote on the amendment, which she knew its supporters would win, but she didn't have much choice. Majority Whip James Clyburn has said that adding the provision won Democratic leaders 10 ...

From MIKE MADDEN AND ALEX KOPPELMAN, Salon,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  James Clyburn,  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Michele Bachmann's army marches on Washington

That pretty much summed up the message the Tea Partiers' mini-march on Washington was aiming for Thursday: Nancy Pelosi, kiss my fat ass. Facing the prospect of House passage of a healthcare bill by this weekend, Bachmann and the conservative noise ...

From MIKE MADDEN, Salon,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Democratic National Committee

One of these things is not like the other

Palin and Armey, and an armada of right-wing bloggers, pushed for Hoffman for weeks, rejoicing -- too early, it turned out -- over the weekend as Scozzafava quit. For the GOP, the lesson of the night may well be that the grass-roots aren't always right. ...

From MIKE MADDEN, Salon,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  White House

Get ready for the Grand Old Tea Party takeover

New York's 23rd District House race candidate Doug Hoffman speaks to the press in Syracuse, N.Y., on Oct. 29. WASHINGTON -- The whole thing may have started with a rainy April rally in Washington's Lafayette Park. But by the time the first wave of ...

From MIKE MADDEN, Salon,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Republican National Committee,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Dede Scozzafava

Why is the media defending Fox and attacking Obama?

Oct. 28, 2009 | By the time the White House got around to declaring that the administration had simply had enough of Fox News Channel, it wasn't exactly a surprise to anyone. Just three months into President Obama's term, Fox's broadcasting parent had ...

From MIKE MADDEN, Salon,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama,  Fox News Channel,  United States Department of the Treasury,  U.S. Republican Party

White House cuts Wall Street's allowance

WASHINGTON -- Comrades! Great news from the Kremlin. The pay czar, Comrade Ken Feinberg, has finally completed the assignment of crushing the bankers and the bourgeoisie that suffocates the working class. He has capped their pay at a mere $500,000 per ...

From MIKE MADDEN, Salon,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  United States Department of the Treasury,  U.S. Republican Party,  Rush Limbaugh

The waiting is the hardest part

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, gestures during a news conference in Washington Tuesday. Joining him, from second from left, are White House healthcare czar Nancy-Ann DeParle, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd ...

From MIKE MADDEN, Salon,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Harry Reid,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party

I get my investment advice from Glenn Beck and G. Gordon Liddy

Oct. 19, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- Forget Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and all those other self-made millionaires. My new financial gurus are Glenn Beck and G. Gordon Liddy -- and I'm a richer man for it. For the last six weeks, I've been making money off of ...

From MIKE MADDEN, Salon,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Glenn Beck,  G. Gordon Liddy,  Barack Obama,  Bill Gates,  Warren Buffett

Are we bipartisan now?

Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, was the only Republican on the Senate Finance Committee to vote for the committee's healthcare reform bill Tuesday. Oct. 14, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- In the end, Max Baucus -- and the White House -- finally got his long-lost ...

From MIKE MADDEN, Salon,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Olympia Snowe,  Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Democratic Party

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