Reimagining Speaker Pel...

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal Conservatives are by nature optimists. They are intensely focused on retaking the White House and the Senate. But what if, in that optimism, they are missing a growing threat?That threat is to the House of Representatives. Republicans claimed a...

GOP Aid to at-Risk Incu...

Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP The group tasked with getting Republicans elected to the House of Representatives — and keeping them there — added 10 party members to its incumbent protection program this week, a development that Democrats hailed as a nod from the other side that the...

GOP Race Likely to Grin...

Aaron Blake, Washington Post No, it's not just you: Presidential nominating contests are getting longer.Four years after a Democratic primary battle that lasted until June, the GOP presidential race looks as though it will grind on for weeks or months more, despite Mitt Romney's...

Newt Had Nothing To Do ...

Al Hunt, Bloomberg To listen to the candidate, the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s was about the Gipper and Newt.“I worked with President Reagan in the entire recovery of the 1980s,” Newt Gingrich declared in a recent debate of Republican presidential hopefuls. He...

Do "Family Values&...

Melinda Henneberger, Washington Post The first Washington sex scandal I remember following involved Daniel Crane, a Republican congressman from my home state of Illinois, who was censured in the (first) House page scandal in 1983.In July of that year, the House Ethics Committee announced...

Obama Is Living the Lef...

Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph What was it everybody used to say about the United States? Look at what’s happening over there and you will see our future. Whatever Americans are doing now, we will be catching up with them in another 10 years or so. In popular culture or political...

Gingrich: Straight-Out ...

Louise Radnofsky, WSJ A pugnacious Newt Gingrich reiterated his intention to stay in the Republican presidential primary "all the way to the convention," telling reporters Sunday morning that he believed that "this is going to be a straight-out contest for the...

What’s Next for H...

Josh Dzieza, The Daily Beast Rumors about Hillary Clinton’s next job abound. Will she challenge President Obama in the primary? Or swap with Joe Biden for the vice presidency? Now that she’s reaffirmed her intention to retire if Obama wins a second term,...

GOP Race Is a Fight for...

Barabak & Hoeffel, LA Times As Brenda Mulberry stepped into the natural-food grocery in Cocoa Beach this week, she paused to tick off elements of her shopping list for a candidate in Tuesday's Florida primary. Electability was at the top, and for that reason she's backing...

Gingrich’s Megalo...

Charles Blow, New York Times Newt Gingrich is spaced-out. Literally.Anyone who remembers him from his days as speaker of the House in the ’90s remembers how erratic, unpredictable and off-the-wall he could be, but, so far, this campaign season he has managed to conceal his many...