Among gay rights advocates already frustrated by Obama’s foot-dragging on their issues, this one threatens to balloon into a new controversy: Obama’s outside political operation is urging supporters in Maine to turn out to the polls for...

The GOP strategy on Afghanistan has been to frame President Obama’s choice as a decision over whether or not to go along with his commanders’ desire for an expanded counterinsurgency, and the new NBC/WSJ poll suggests it may be bearing ...

There’s a key piece of news buried in the new Gallup poll: A leading reason conservatives are maintaining their edge as the top ideological group is that independents appear to be moving to the right: Changes among political independents appe...

There seems to be a growing consensus among former GOP officials that their party has been successfully defined — or has defined itself — in very damaging terms as reflexively obstructionist and opposed at all costs to helping the majorit...

It isn’t often discussed, but if Senator Arlen Specter manages to lose the Pennsylvania Senate race to GOP challenger Pat Toomey, some of the blame will fall squarely on the White House and Dem establishment, which engineered Specter’s ...

The left is opening up a new front in the war on the watered-down health care bill: It’s taking aim at Obama’s claim that it would “provide” coverage for 30 million more Americans. This claim has become central to the White House and Senate...

Sam Stein reports that two top labor unions may come out against the Senate health care bill, a move that would send shock waves through the proceedings: Two of the country’s largest labor groups, the SEIU and the AFL-CIO, are each holding emergency...

I’m not sure if any Republicans had taken a shot at Obama’s self-grade of “B-plus” before today. But GOP Rep Eric Cantor has now blazed this trail, claiming he was “taken aback” by the president’s assessment, and saying it should have been an...

Little by little, Congressional Dems are beginning to pin the lion’s share of the blame for the badly weakened health care bill on a single figure: President Obama. Here’s Russ Feingold, for instance, making a striking accusation: Obama may be more...

* Interesting number in the new WaPo poll: More than six in 10, by 63%-33%, favor expanding Medicare to those 55 and up. Remarkable that the only provisions that can’t get through the Senate are those with clear majority support. * But: A majority,...