The Daily Caller / By Amanda Carey   Some Democratic members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, have become the subject of criticism, but their appointments were only finalized… more »

President Barack Obama is facing mounting doubts within his own party about his re-election prospects, with fellow Democrats beginning to ask if Hillary Clinton would have made a better president. UK Telegraph By Alex Spillius, Washington Mr Obama'… more »

CR editorial note: Well, we have been predicting this type of thing, along with a host of other blooming eventualities for quite a long time. Do we feel like rubbing it in? No, but we do feel like the wisdom of heartland America has not and will not be h… more »

WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of intense partisanship, Republican congressional leaders and President Barack Obama made a last-minute stab at compromise Saturday to avoid a government default threatened for early next week.But there was no undisputed e… more »

The Washington Post / By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane The House narrowly passed GOP debt-limit legislation Friday after Republican leaders revised it to gain the support of recalcitrant tea party conservatives, but Senate Democrats declared it dead… more »