Staten Island woman cries out to Chuck Schumer: "We are going to die."

Reading the headline at Breitbart , I thought I was going to see someone who had become hysterical and irrational, but watch. It's been ...

Senator Schumer "is known to cajole, nag, and outright pester his staff" about getting married and having babies.

The NYT seems to be celebrating the man for using his position in the workplace to harass underlings about their private lives: Cupid’s arr...

What's the best position for a 2012 candidate to take on the Arizona approach to immigration enforcement?

The Obama administration fought this law, in what culminated in an embarrassing performance at the Supreme Court this week. And Chuck Schum...

"Schumer likens conservatives to a flea."

I'm sorry. Am I not paying enough attention to the budget crisis? Do I need to show that I care? Well... so... here: "Schumer liken...

Schumer overheard: "I always use the word extreme... That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week."

NYT reports. Moments before a conference call with reporters was scheduled to get underway on Tuesday morning, Charles E. Schumer of New Yor...

David Gregory and Chuck Schumer demagogue the Citizens United case on "Meet the Press" today.

If there's one thing you should know about Citizens United v. FEC , it's that it's not about corporate contributions to politica...

Why should it be illegal for airlines to charge a fee for carry-on bags when they can charge a fee for checking bags?

I don't get it. No one likes to pay more for anything, but why should one particular way of collecting money from passengers be forbidd...

That prick muttered something under his breath.

It's not like he called her a "bitch" to her face.

The day the news was so shocking that it knocked Chuck Schumer out of his partisan mode.

This leaves me feeling shocked in retrospect, so I can't imagine how it must have felt to the Senators as they listened to Ben Bernanke...

And then Dick Cheney appeared and all the angels sang.

Dick Cheney's halo became fully visible yesterday as he came to the Capitol for the the weekly Republican policy lunch. Speaking to rep...

"There was the risqué, sexually offensive, sometimes racially offensive, satire, and then there was this political salon about politics and books."

NBC chief White House correspondent David Gregory has good insight into Imus (in this really well-done Newsweek piece by Weston Kosova ): ...

"Everybody in the world says they’re going to do a television series based on us..."

"But then they realize that the story of four middle-aged men, with no sex and violence, is not going to last two weeks." Senators...

"It is virtually 100 percent that Webb is going to win the race."

So says Chuck Schumer, but the NYT is treating the question of control of the Senate as unresolved: Democratic Party officials and some new...

We've got to talk about the election.

This is a big day for pre-election analysis, and I suppose the people who write this sort of thing really do get excited about it. Me, I...

"How do I phrase this diplomatically?"

New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi introduced Senator Schumer this way: "The man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who wil...

"We need a different strategy, one that shows we stand for something."

Says Russ Feingold, defending his political maneuver of calling for the censure of President Bush: The left wing of the party has greeted F...

"Judge Alito's nomination is the tipping point against constitutionally-based freedoms and protections we cherish as individuals and as a nation."

So "[h]istory will show," predicts Senator Hillary Clinton , who's announced her support of the filibuster. Her move seems to ...

Alito answers.

Let's take a look at the NYT coverage of Day 2 of the Alito hearings. The two Adams -- Liptak and Nagourney -- have this to say: If Sena...

''I can say that if somebody from al-Qaida is calling you, we'd like to know why."

Said President Bush this morning, aptly. Also: ''The fact that somebody leaked this program causes great harm to the United States...

On Alito: defining expectations downwards?

Here 's a piece by David Kirkpatrick, reporting that insiders are predicting a more ragged performance before the Senate Judiciary Commi...