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The GOP Can't Win With Eric Cantor as Its Ambassador OK, here's the deal. Conor Friedersdorf had a perfectly fine column over at ...

Ross Douthat is a fan of the ill-fated House health care initiative last week, which was torpedoed by a faction who decided that voting for ...

Obviously, I'm assuming that after Speaker Boehner introduced Plan B to the GOP conference yesterday, the Republican Members of the Hous...

I thought Pema Levy's post about blame for the debt limit mess was excellent -- with the important caveat that we're still waiting ...

I was busy with answering questions and trying to figure out the McConnell plan yesterday, and I completely missed a very smart post from Ma...

There's been a lot of stuff today and over the weekend about how little sway John Boehner has within the Republican conference. I do t...

I'm generally impressed by incoming Majority House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's reported plans for House scheduling for 2011.  It...

In my view.... There's nothing hypocritical or wrong in any way with a Member of Congress saying that government should not spend mone...