In his campaign for the presidency, Rep. Ron Paul insists that nothing is more important than reducing the size of government and making government less intrusive — except when it comes to the reproductive systems of American women.
When it comes to women’s bodies, Rep. Paul is all for big government. After all, somebody has [...]

I’m not going to comb over that question!

- White House spox Jay Carney, declining to respond after a reporter asked if Pres. Obama had sought Donald Trump’s endorsement.

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OP boss Grover Norquist, the millionaire Washington lobbyist and leading anti-tax nerd, says he will demand that his party impeach Pres. Obama, if the president is reelected and if Congress allows the Bush tax cuts on the 1 percent to expire:
NORQUIST: Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the [...]

hat California Republican Party is so pathetic that it is tempting to bleeding-heart types to feel sad for them. GOP registration is on a years-long downhill slide (it could dip below 30 percent soon), and the state party is so underfunded that it could not afford to buy advertising in the 2008 campaign. In [...]

Wow.

-287,674

Difference in number of voters who turned out for Florida’s Republican presidential primary in 2008 — 1,949,498 — and this year’s turn out of 1,661,824. If there was a nearly 300,000 dip in voter turnout in a Democratic primary, the corporate media would be tut-tutting about depressed voter enthusiasm, but since it is a Republican primary, Beltway pundits view the dip as a blip that is not worth mentioning.

Here’s an idea for turning the Citizens United lemons into progressive lemonade, via The Hill:
A new liberal super-PAC called Credo has announced its first six targets of the 2012 campaign: GOP Reps. Joe Walsh (Ill.), Steve King (Iowa), Allen West (Fla.)*, Sean Duffy (Wis.), Chip Cravaack (Minn.) and Frank Guinta (N.H.).
All six are vulnerable: [...]