What Rush Limbaugh truly means to the Republican party is a question that is becoming more and more impossible to answer. 
Former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently joked in a CNN interview that his Republican colleagues, and in specific — Sarah Palin ”aren’t that cute.” This was a quote Mr. Limbaugh didn’t seem to take in as much of a playful stride as Romney, instead attacking the week old GOP council. ”They despise Sarah Palin. They fear Sarah Palin. They don’t like her either. According to them, she’s embarrassing.”
Without playing into the overall political message …

Political contribution reform and all of its due glory has its ups and downs, but like other things, when manipulated it will become exactly what it is seemlingly posed against — partisan warfare. Enter the Democratic Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Commities.
In what has exploded throughout the political world, a June fundraiser for these committees turned into a give and take offer for the president — to speak at the event in exchange for a ban on PAC and Lobbyist donations — for one day. Pundits, the partisan media, politicians and …

Washington is a very confusing place. 
In the past week, the public has seen the story of waterboarding explode into literately hundreds of pieces. President Barack Obama and his cabinet have almost fatally contradicted themselves and the main stream media’s supposed unbiased analysis of the waterboardings have flown hand in hand — and in some cases have assumed the form of — their own talking heads. And of course, this all comes in great time of President Obama’s 100 day celebration. 
So how can this all be politically interpreted? In some ways, it can’t. 
As John Dickerson writes, we …

Measuring a person’s right to express themselves is constitutionally guaranteed, but one thinking quite radically may cite some minor flaws. 
In the wake of one of the worst recessions our domestic economy has ever experienced, one might expect the inevitable — a grassroots political rally that uprises middle and urban America to protest somewhat unpopular decisions by the federal government. But in one of the rarest cases, this essential Democratic concept seems to partially damage the political system with its string of complications. 
Held across the country, the April 15 Tax Day Tea …