Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan is gaining traction, but not in every quarter.
With the clock ticking down until the U.S. hits its debt ceiling, conservative and progressive third-party interest groups whose pledges lawmakers have signed their names to are ratcheting up the pressure to keep them in line.
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist calls for less rhetoric and more written proposals from Obama.
The head of a conservative group that has backed a high-profile pledge to oppose any tax increase told CNN on Friday that he would support effectively lifting the debt ceiling through the 2012 presidential election.
A conservative leader Friday laid the Republican Party's poor showing at the polls at the feet of moderates who, he argues, led the party away from its core principles.
CNN's Dana Bash reports on what went wrong with John McCain's campaign for president and what's next.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed rumors Tuesday that she is angling to be Sen. John McCain's running mate, instead telling reporters she plans to head back to Stanford University.
Jack Cafferty asks: Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain if Condoleezza Rice is his running mate?
At this stage, it's not easy to make Jack Abramoff's reputation worse. The Washington superlobbyist has been caught, in his e-mails, calling his Indian tribal clients "monkeys" and "morons."
Conservative and liberal groups normally at each other's throats over the direction of government are finding common cause in wanting to gut major provisions of the government's premier anti-terrorism law.
Grover Norquist, a longtime adviser to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, thinks he's figured out a way to populate the country with a whole new subspecies of Right-thinking Republicans: Push legi...