Sarah Palin made it clear Monday in an interview on Fox's Sean Hannity show that she is not going to "sit down or shut up."
The first date is over. Not much happened. President Obama and his new governing partners, the House and Senate Republicans, met at the White House along with the Democratic leaders and discussed the unsolvable issues between them.
This is Orientation Week for the 100-plus new members of Congress. After the drama of a yearlong campaign and the excitement of victory, the coming days will be full of briefings, meetings, social events, picking new offices and staff and the realization that a new and challenging part of their lives is just beginning.
Newly tapped freshman leader Rep.-elect Kristi Noem, R, SD, explains her plans to change Washington.
Editor's note: In eight days, voters will cast ballots in the hotly contested midterm elections. In this special feature, CNN's political contributors share their quick thoughts on what's making news.
Since 2000, one of the most popular television reality programs has been a CBS show called "Survivor." It's a show in which contestants compete against each other in a variety of humiliating and difficult tasks until one is declared the winner.
Consider a few facts that the Republicans keep missing. As they say, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Sorry, Mr. President. Nobody's listening.
Editor's note: There are 26 days to go before voters cast ballots in the hotly contested midterm elections. In this special feature, CNN's political contributors share their quick thoughts on what's making news.
"Parker Spitzer" asks Doris Kearns Goodwin for history's clues to the 2010 midterm elections.
Since the early '80s, nearly every major boxing championship or featured bout has had a golden-voiced announcer, Michael Buffer, who began the bout with the pronouncement "Let's get ready to rumble!"
The preliminaries are over; let the battles begin. With less than seven weeks to go, here are the conclusions of the primary season completed yesterday.
CNN's Dana Bash and Gloria Borger discuss how the GOP is handling the victory of Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell.
The last U.S. combat convoy has left Iraq, but political contributor Ed Rollins says a celebration may be premature.
With a little more than 10 weeks left to go, the rhetoric has accelerated and both sides are trying to find an issue that changes the dynamics of Election Day 2010.
Trying to read the tea leaves and predict elections this year is a gut-wrenching exercise in futility. And my party's march to Election Day glory is having a lot of bumps along the way.
The Senate lost a giant and America lost a patriot with the death of Sen. Robert Byrd early Monday morning.
President Obama removed Gen. Stanley McChrystal from his post as top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday because of published comments that were critical of the administration. Obama said McChrystal had violated the military code of conduct and announced that Gen. David Petraeus will replace him.
President Obama says he has accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation and will replace him with Gen. David Petraeus.
Two leaders have been called on to resign this week by critics and media analysts. Both men damaged their credibility by their own actions and no one else's.
President Obama has given a lot of speeches. He's given hundreds since he became president. He's given six in the last two days on his trip to the Gulf.
Five things can describe what's on the minds of voters in this coming election.
Who needs reality TV when we have reality politics? In spite of voters telling pollsters they are fed up with elected officials and reaffirming those sentiments by firing them at the voting booth, the politicians still aren't getting the message.
There is a term used widely on Capitol Hill, and it needs no explanation to the tens of thousands who work there serving the House and Senate. The term is "old bulls," and it is used to describe the most senior members of Congress.
The political campaign season is off and running, whether you're ready or not. According to the latest CNN poll, registered voters share the polarization that now rules Washington.
If President Obama had been forthright last week at the health care summit, he would have opened the meeting by stating: "If you have health coverage, under our reform bills you are going to pay more and get less. If you are one of the 45 million elderly or disabled people on Medicare, you are going to get less. There is no such thing as free medical care. Somebody has to pay! And in the end it is you."
In the week we celebrate Valentine's Day, honor our first president, George Washington (and all the other past presidents) and begin the season of Lent, there is much to reflect on.
A grass-roots movement is growing across this country, and like the Ross Perot movement of 18 years ago, it will turn the political landscape upside down, with the consequences being felt long afterwards.
Still reeling from Tuesday's shocking upset in the Massachusetts Senate race, the political class got hammered again Thursday by the Supreme Court, which, for all practical purposes, outlawed campaign finance rules and made the already irrelevant Federal Election Commission obsolete.
The voters in Massachusetts sent a message loud and clear. Maybe even a "shot heard around the world." At least the political world. Tuesday night's victory for Scott Brown for the vacant seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy for 46 years was a massive win for disenchanted voters everywhere.
After months of review, President Obama has made a decision that will not please the base of his party. The majority of Democrats in Congress are opposed to expanding or prolonging the war in Afghanistan. Many Americans share their concern.
Erica Hill and panelists discuss the latest on the White House "party crashers."
The gate crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi want to be famous as stars of reality television. I am all for that. Give them a reality television series and call it "Trial and Jailtime" in the D.C. criminal justice system. This despicable, desperate, duplicitous couple disgraced the Secret Service and embarrassed the president in his home.
In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed the 11th day of the month as the first commemoration of Armistice Day.
The president didn't watch the election returns Tuesday night, according to his press secretary, Robert Gibbs. He watched his beloved Chicago Bulls instead.
The president is making a major address to the Congress and the country Wednesday night. This speech is high risk for him.
The political arena is an emptier place today. A brave and courageous warrior has left the battlefield. He will not be quickly forgotten or replaced.
In his CNN.com column last week, Ed Rollins said of the Republican Party, "We may be down for awhile, but what we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite'! We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business."
Far from a secure, undisclosed location, former Vice President Dick Cheney is out in the open and increasing his criticism on the Obama administration and even fellow Republicans.
The world of politics has many players but few giants. One of the giants left the stage last week.
Like so many politicians I have known, the man we elected president wants to be loved. He wants to be loved passionately and daily by the 69 million who voted for him and even some of the 60 million who voted for John McCain.
President Obama said Tuesday that recent stimulus measures "are starting to generate signs of economic progress," but more tough times are ahead.
President Obama says the country cannot afford to put off hard decisions.
President Obama has returned from his first trip abroad with praise ringing in his ears from the media elite and barely a word of protest from the Republican opposition.
Every great athlete has a pace. A pace is a certain speed at which they can run for very long periods of time without damaging their bodies and wearing themselves out before the race is over.
The cold winds of March have obviously affected the intelligence and thought processes of people who need to get their thinking straight.
CNN's Candy Crowley looks at reaction to President Obama's speech.
President Obama's address to Congress was full of lofty promises to make unprecedented investments in government programs, even as he aims to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term.
I first arrived in Washington in January 1973 as a new member of the Nixon team working in congressional relations for the administration.
President Obama had his first prime-time news conference Monday, and 60 million viewers tuned in.
Sports fans argue that the National Football League is the toughest game outside of war. I would argue Washington politics is also a pretty rough arena.
President Barack Obama, our newly inaugurated 44th president, showed the millions watching around the world and the freezing millions there in person on the Mall why he won the election -- and why so many believe he can lead us in these troubled times.
One week from today, a historic presidency begins and a tarnished presidency ends.
This past year was full of unexpected twists and turns on the campaign trail.
Republican strategist and CNN contributor Ed Rollins spoke with "American Morning" anchor John Roberts on Monday on the status of the presidential campaigns and the weekend's events leading up to the November 4 vote.
CNN's Bill Schneider analyzes the Oxford, Mississippi Presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama.
Now that Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain have their first presidential debate out of the way, the focus turns to their running mates.
Sen. John McCain's campaign was on the verge of making big mistakes before it announced a major power shift, Republican strategist Ed Rollins said.
Republican strategist Ed Rollins looks at the changes in the John McCain presidential campaign structure.
CNN's Barbara Starr looks at whether Barack Obama and John McCain can keep their Iraq strategies as the war changes.
Anderson talks with his panel about the debate between Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama over the G.I. bill.
As a bill that would expand education benefits for veterans has become a flash point in the early sparring between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, some Republicans admit that the Democrats may have outmaneuvered them on the issue.
There are still no clear front-runners for the GOP but Fred Thompson hopes to win the South Carolina primary.
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain taunted rival Mitt Romney on immigration Monday, saying the former Massachusetts governor should "get out his small-varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn."
After three days of passionate debate over one of President Bush's controversial judicial nominees, Senate Republicans on Friday called for a procedural vote early next week to cut off debate.
OKAY, let's admit it up front: No incumbent President enjoying the kind of approval ratings that George Bush is getting a year before an election has ever been defeated. But saying something is imp...
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