How far can Christie fall?  There’s little doubt that presidential prospects of New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie are going to be hurt—at least in the short run—by the scandal over a bridge ramp closing in Fort Lee engineered by some of this top political aides as retribution for the ...

A whopping 91% of Republican insiders declared 2013 a poor one for the President and 47% of Democrats concurred with that view.   As Barack Obama prepares for his State of the Union Address on January 28, his prospects for 2014 appear brighter than they were in 2013, according to ...

The Senate Majority Leader's decision in November to push thru a controversial change to Senate rules was his defining moment.   “Follow the leader,” or not follow, depending on your partisan viewpoint, might be the best way to describe how Congress fared last year. And that may point to few ...