President-elect Obama is warning this morning that the economy “could become dramatically worse” and face unemployment above 10 percent without bipartisan support for a massive government stimulus program that would temporarily add to the record federal budget deficit but would …

Of all the odd couples in Washington, they might be the oddest.

One is a doughy, laid-back Wisconsinite, known for his big parties and boyish grin. The other is a marathon runner from New York who has been …

Team Obama has made its first mistake — again.

When Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary earlier this week, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell declared it “the Obama team’s first misstep.”

But Mitchell had been …

In picking politically untested Denver Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet to succeed Democrat Ken Salazar in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, has offered Colorado Republicans a strong opportunity to pick up a Senate seat in 2010, political analysts …

Not so long ago, it seemed that Bobby Rush might never be able to speak again. When doctors at the University of Chicago hospital sliced behind the 62-year-old congressman’s ear last March to remove a malignant tumor in his salivary …

Caviar, foie gras and parties underwritten by Detroit’s not-so-Big Three automobile companies will be in short supply at this year’s inaugural festivities. What there will be more of are people, security and, despite the economy, parties.

Forget about the …

They might sit side-by-side in Barack Obama’s Cabinet room someday, but Tom Daschle didn’t much like Hillary Clinton’s tactics for fixing health care 15 years ago – so much so that he wrote a book critiquing them.

Now as …

Harry Reid is poised to let Roland Burris take a seat in the Senate — an embarrassing about-face for a Democratic leader at the pinnacle of his power.

Just a week ago, Reid said unequivocally that anyone appointed …

Faced with record deficits and a skeptical public, Democrats are doubling up efforts to sell their economic recovery plan, with President-elect Barack Obama taking the lead in a speech Thursday designed to lay out the case for government action….

Move over David Plouffe. The cleverest Democratic campaign manager of the new year appears to be none other than Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

In a season of troubled "rollouts" – think Sarah Palin and Caroline Kennedy – Roland Burris’s …