Internal Republican poll confirms Americans think House GOP sucks
I can't imagine why America doesn't like these guys.
Republicans are nothing if not consistent—and it's taking a toll. Politico:
Long, drawn-out skirmishes over the debt ceiling, the supercommittee and the payroll tax holiday have led to a 6...
2012 House GOP ‘agenda’: More investigations, more obstructionism
John Boehner. Not sure why he's still Speaker.
The Washington Post says House Republicans have settled on an agenda for the coming year:
Girding for President Obama’s effort to paint them as an obstacle to recovery, House Republicans have crafted a...
John Boehner bows to House GOP extremists on Keystone XL, payroll tax fight
House Speaker John Boehner, by all early reports, wanted to avoid another damaging fight over the payroll tax cut extension. There were reports that he wanted to wrap this up quickly, and that he was going to cut the tea party out of the negotiations. ...
John Boehner seeks to cut tea party faction out of payroll tax cut extension negotiations
Speaker John Boehner eyes his bête noire, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Larry Downing/Reuters)
Congressional aides tell Reuters that House Speaker John Boehner will cut the tea party contingent in his caucus out of the negotiations in deal-making fo...
Republicans in disarray, and it’s delicious!
You'd be crying too if you had to deal with teabaggers politicians in Congress.
Sucks to be a House GOPer.
A year to the day since Ohio’s John Boehner and 87 eager freshmen took Washington by storm, House Republicans are bruised from battle, irrita...
GOP leadership ‘outraged’ by Obama’s appointment of Richard Cordray
President Barack Obama
Howls of outrage, predictably, have ensued from Republicans over the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
House Speaker John Boehner:
“This is an extraordinary and entirely unprec...
House Republicans dish to The Hill on the John Boehner, Eric Cantor ‘soap opera’
Speaker John Boehner giving Minority Leader Eric Cantor the evil eye (Larry Downing/Reuters)
If there's one good thing the debacle of the payroll tax cut extension has done, it's the emergence of a new, and long overdue, traditional media narrative:...
Tea Partiers whine about payroll tax cut extension but don’t lift a finger to stop it
Here's a funny thing about the way "unanimous consent" works in the House: it requires consent to be unanimous. What the hell am I talking about? Well, after Republican Speaker John Boehner caved to reality in humiliating fashion over the payroll tax c...
John Boehner holds press conference to announce deal on payroll tax cut extension
Speaker John Boehner is holding a press conference to announce that, as previously reported, the Republicans have caved on the payroll tax cut extension standoff. (Okay, he probably won't use those exact words.) From his statement earlier today:
Senat...
