Rhetoric

A reader writes: That LAT profile was not quite the "big reveal" concerning where this woman is coming from. I am 42 and grew up in Royal Oak, Michigan and attended Bishop Foley Catholic High School in Madison Heights, probably five or…

Both houses of the California Legislature passed the main Budget bill today and have now solved roughly half of the state's $26.6 billion Deficit, mostly through cuts and taking funds from special state accounts. But nobody's celebrating yet. Th…

Sacramento, California (Reuters) - California lawmakers on Thursday approved most of the bills making up Governor Jerry Brown's state Budget but the most important part of the plan -- an extension of temporary Tax Increases -- may not be tackled …

The old guard within the GOP has co-opted, corrupted or isolated the Tea Party elected Congressional Representatives. This last House vote on the three week extension had fifty four “no” votes from Republicans. It is said, as a result …

The most interesting thing about this story isn’t DeMint’s original comments, which are quite tame, but rather the fact that his allies were sufficiently alarmed to reach out to The Hill and produce a quick follow-up article walking …

In the months leading up to November’s Midterm Elections, President Barack Obama had a favorite metaphor: if The Economy were a car, the Republicans drove it into a ditch. Since the midterm “shellacking” he suffered at the poll…

Sacramento, Calif. — After suffering widespread losses at the polls in 2010, the California Republican Party is trying to regroup and stay relevant in a state that appears to be leaning less and less toward Republican ideology. The party h…

The St. Petersburg Times: Fundraising letters tend to embrace extra-heated Rhetoric, and in a solicitation for the RNC Rubio calls Democrats Socialists: Read the whole story: The St. Petersburg Times ...…