Gov. Rick Perry has a new writing partner. Perry and fellow Republican Gov. Mark Sanford teamed up as co-authors to bash Washington. In a December op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Perry and Sanford targeted federal bailouts. Sanford has since...
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was all set to name topless club owner Dawn Rizos "Entrepreneur of the Year" before finding out what her business actually featured. Here's a look at the hardware Rizos was going to get before being...
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Texas Sen. John Cornyn argued this morning on NBC's "Meet the Press" against an "ideological fixation on the public option" - the boogeyman in the health care debate....
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has endorsed Railroad Commission Chairman Michael Williams for Senate. "We need conservatives willing to engage the Democrats on the field of ideas...willing to speak of a 21st Century conservatism...willing to stand and fight on...
Sen. John Cornyn's scolding of Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh seems to have paid off. The Texas Republican distanced himself last week from their assertions that Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a "racist," calling that "terrible" and just...
It is arguable whether one politician should be held responsible for the remarks of another. Certainly, both parties have used that tactic to embarrass adversaries whose allies said something inflammatory. This afternoon, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee challenged Dallas Rep....
Sen. John Cornyn tonight repudiated the allegation that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is "racist" - and he distanced himself in no uncertain terms from the conservative opinion leaders who leveled that charge against the Supreme Court nominee, former House Speaker Newt...
Democrats have been itching for a chance to tie Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions to former Speaker Newt Gingrich's assertion that the woman hoping to become the Supreme Court's first Hispanic is a "racist." They're hoping to take advantage of the...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn is about to get even more visibility in the brewing Supreme Court fight. Watch for him as a headline guest Sunday on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He'll be opposite Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New...
You have to wonder what Bush uberguru Karl Rove must have thought of this week's Conservative Political Action Conference, where his old boss has become just another villain of the conservative movement. Here's what some were saying about Bush, once...
Remember Phyllis Schlafly? The Eagle Forum founder and conservative activist who led the long-ago fight against the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment, not earned run average) was spotted in the Embassy Suites hotel last night, proudly wearing her McCain-Palin button....
Newt Gingrich is talking to delegates about the good old days, which means he's telling Ronald Reagan stories. He just finished up telling everyone how Reagan insisted on keeping the "tear down that wall" line in a now famous...
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich didn't give a ringing endorsement of John McCain when he was asked today whether the Arizona senator was the best conservative for the job. "He's the nominee," Mr. Gingrich said at the Texas Republican...
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