Everybody knows the health care debate has become more and more contentious, and dominated by a Republican parliamentary effort to delay the debate. But an under-appreciated aspect of this whole controversy -- exceedingly rare, if not unprecedented -- is the fact that it's even affected defense spending, with Senate Republicans having worked to hold that up, too!

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is challenged by his GOP rival for the Senate primary on why he voted both ways on the cap-and-trade bill. Democrats will use video of the exchange to target Kirk as a flip-flopper.

In a new campaign ad, Tea Partiers ask: Harry Reid, worst Senate Majority Leader or worstest Senate Majority Leader?

Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) mocks Majority Leader Harry Reid, Peter Orszag and President Obama in Christmas limerick.

President Obama lands in Copenhagen and attempts to salvage climate deal, tells delegation the time for talk is over.

The Family Research Council Action PAC held an extraordinary "prayercast" event last night, praying for the intercession of God to change Senators' minds and stop the health care bill.

Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) is still relatively unknown in the early presidential primary state of New Hampshire.

President Obama records a video for troops to air on WWE special this weekend.

Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean sounds off on the health care bill on MSNBC's Keith Olbermann show last night. "They're not thinking about what they are doing here," Dean says, calling the negotiations a "real disappointment." He said "to make...

In the midst of the health care debate, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is rolling out a new set of radio ads on a different big issue, Wall Street accountability -- specifically targeting House GOPers who voted against the recent financial regulation package.

At today's conservative "Code Red" rally against the health care bill, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) rallied the faithful with a fun historical and literacy reference: "It's the charge of the light brigade!"

The tea partiers put a new twist on an old classic.

Vice President Joe Biden says he's confident Sen. Joe Lieberman will come around, but says everyone is engaging in "gamesmanship" to get the maximum leverage from the bill. Today Biden appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," defending his old Senate colleague...

Obama: Republicans And Financial Lobbyists Seeking To Block 'Commonsense Reforms' In this weekend's YouTube address, President Obama, President Obama proposed the pending financial reform legislation, which passed the House of Representatives yesterday. And he excoriated the Republicans and the financial...

The Republicans are planning to fight furiously to try and recapture control of the House of Representatives in 2010, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who helped orchestrate the Republican revolution 15 years ago, thinks it's possible for a repeat....

On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh said that none other than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told him that the Republicans are offering amendments to the health care bill, not to improve the bill, but as a parliamentary maneuver to "flush out" Democratic centrists Ben Nelson and Jim Webb, and to try to peel them away and thus stop the bill.

Appearing on ABC's "Top Line" Web cast, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) refused to distance herself from actor Jon Voight, who made this remark about President Obama at last month's Capitol Hill Tea Party: "His only success in his one-year term as president is taking America apart, piece by piece. Could it be he has had 20 years of subconscious programming by Rev. Wright to damn America?"

RNC Chairman Mike Steele did the rounds on television this morning. He blasted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's comparison of health care to civil rights, but also said there's no reason Reid should not have the votes yet on the...

Watching Senate floor debate isn't always exciting, but sometimes you hear the words "going urgently" and your ears perk up. That was Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) lighting up the floor by reading the scripts advertising some of the most common...

Leading Republicans and Democrats trade barbs over health care reform.