The Tea Party

Seven Tests That Can Keep Republicans from Screwing Up

By Edward Morrissey

It didn’t take long for Republicans to make their first tin-eared mistake after winning a broad victory in November. In fact, they had barely opened the new session of Congress before performing a...
One Place the Trump Train Isn’t Stopping: Paul Ryan’s Backyard

By Martin Matishak

In a year in which an outsider candidate seized the reins of one of the country’s two major political parties, there’s one place where folks haven’t gotten the anti-establishment message: House...
Two-Thirds of the US Government Basically Won’t Work for the Next Year

By Rob Garver

With a deadlocked Supreme Court and a compromise-averse Congress, 2016 promises to be a year in which simply keeping the lights on will be a major accomplishment.
House Freedom Caucus Prepares to Challenge Ryan on 2016 Agenda

By Eric Pianin

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has gotten off to a strong start with the far-right conservatives in his conference who drove former Speaker John Boehner from office and blocked Boehner’s heir...
Ted Cruz Gets a Boost from Powerful Conservative Insiders

By Rob Garver

An influential political action group in Washington, Heritage Action for America, all but endorsed the presidential candidacy of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday, with the release of an analysis of the...

Boehner Ready to Exit a Historically Feeble Congress

By Rob Garver

As he heads into what appears to be the final week his leadership of the House of Representatives, House Speaker John Boehner will be the subject of no end of retrospective profiles of his career...
Did Paul Ryan Outsmart the Freedom Caucus?

By Rob Garver

The news that Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan had persuaded a large majority of the House of Representatives’ most conservative element to support his bid for Speaker of the House left the...
Paul Ryan Has Probably Already Lost His Shot at the Presidency

By Rob Garver

Regardless of whether Rep. Paul Ryan decides to declare himself a candidate for Speaker of the House sometime this week, his political future will likely sustain some real damage – and there is...
Meet the Freedom Caucus, the Group Inflaming Washington

By Martin Matishak

If you don’t know much about a group of congressional lawmakers called the House Freedom Caucus, don’t worry; you’ll hear about them plenty in the weeks and month ahead.
Why You – Yes, You – Could Be the Next Speaker of the House

By Martin Matishak

Spoiler alert: The race to be the next Speaker of the House is pretty much over.

Cruz, Paul Promise Very Different Futures If GOP Takes Senate

By Rob Garver

What would a GOP-controlled Senate look like? Two likely contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 have very different ideas.
Why Cruz Won’t Pledge Support to McConnell

By Sebastian Payne and Robert Costa, The Washington Post

Sen. Ted Cruz spent the final weekend of the midterms on the far edge of the country trying to help fellow Republican Dan Sullivan win a race the GOP is counting on in its effort to retake the Senate...
Rand Paul’s Tactic for Winning Over a Nervous GOP: Invoke Reagan

By Rob Garver

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul last night delivered what was billed as a major foreign policy address. The likely nominee for the Republican presidential nomination articulated a strategy, of sorts, for...
Ted Cruz: Obama’s Public Health Experts Can’t Be Trusted

By Rob Garver

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas took the politicization of the country’s response to the Ebola virus to new levels on Sunday, when he said that the judgment of public health experts can’t be trusted...
RNC Head Claims Democrats Are “Suppressing” GOP Voters

By Rob Garver

Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus published an op-ed this morning making the surprising claim that the Democratic-leaning political action group NextGen Climate, headed by...

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