MSNBC tracks down Republican Rep. Allen West's (FL) brother at a Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored job fair. This happened after Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) informed the network he was in attendance looking for a job. Waters was trying to create some sort of sibling rivalry between the black Republican U.S. Congressman and his brother, who was han

As reported by Oklahoma's newspaper "Tulsa World," U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla) held a town hall event where he gave his unfiltered thoughts on how he thinks President Obama views the United States. (story here) Responding to a man

GOP Presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (TX) appeared on FOX News to discuss fiscal matters as well as the 2012 GOP field and an interesting ad showing up in a Texas newspaper. Paul has some pointers for President Obama when it comes to the economy. Paul told Obama that the first step is to the truth about the economy. He also encouraged the en

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour discusses Texas Gov. Rick Perry's presidential run on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports": "I think Rick Perry has to get prepared for the fact that he's going to be nitpicked by the liberal media elite for everything that he says. And that he has to be very careful because anything that he says that can be taken out

The Last Word guest host Melissa Harris-Perry talks to Georgetown professor EJ Dionne about a Bank of America official who allegedly offered to help Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) out. Dionne says corporates are not 'people' and do not represents the interests of humans and employees.

"No, there isn't anything wrong with going on vacation, but the problem with this president is that he's tone-deaf to the American people and what people expect out of a president in tough times," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said on CNN. Yesterday, Fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) said the

Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann appeared on Salem Radio Network's Janet Mefferd Show this afternoon and said that President Obama has acted as a dictator over the course of his Presidency. "He decided and he directed the EPA to institute cap and trade anyway, even though it didn't pass. That really is a dictatorial sense and use of the Pre

Jon Stewart: Warren Buffett's op-ed is a thoughtful treatise on the advantages the super-wealthy currently enjoy at the hands of the tax code, or to put it another way, "class warfare." (04:48)

Sarah Palin's new web advertisement shows the wild reception former Alaska Governor and 2008 GOP Vice Presidential nominee received during her visit to the Iowa State Fair last week. Palin was hounded by fans and media alike. The web video was produced and distributed by her political action committee SarahPAC.

Rep. Pete DeFazio (D-Ore.) slams president Obama in an interview with KGW in Portland.From the KGW report:Asked whether he thought the President had a shot at re-election, Defazio was skeptical.“At this point it pretty mu

On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren announced that she’s starting an exploratory committee for a potential U.S. Senate run in Massachusetts. The news doesn’t come as much of a surprise. The Harvard Law professor, who recently stepped down from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau she originated, has been the subject of Senatorial speculation for

After an NBC reporter embedded with the Obama family during their vacation in Martha’s Vineyard gave her report that some are unhappy he has decided to go on such a lavish trip in such economic times, MSNBC guest host Chris Cillizza made sure to get a jab in at Sarah Palin. Cillizza, a political writer at the Washington Post, made sure to inform

Economist Jeffrey Sachs slammed President Obama on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday."We're almost three years into this administration, and there's never been a plan. And that's what everybody feels. And the president didn't lead. He waited. The quintessential image, sadly, of an administration that I supported and hoped for much better, i

CNN's Wolf Blitzer discusses the GOP presidential race with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

Charles Krauthammer discusses the president's Martha's Vineyard vacation: "Choosing an exclusive enclave like the Vineyard after spending three days on the road railing against the rich and the wealthy and the millionaires and the billionaires and the corporate jet owners who vacation exactly in the same place and then spending 10 days in their

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Laura Ingraham go head to head over Florida Rep. Allen West's controversial comments, poverty in black communities and President Obama's policies.

Ezra Klein: "You could come to the 'super committee', and the president could say, 'I will not sign that deficit reduction bill that does not include immediate action on jobs,' and if the Republicans would like to say, 'Well, then we're not going to have a deficit reduction bill, and we're going to take $600 billion out of the Pentagon,' let the

"Look, I could be dead wrong,” Levin said. “I have no inside information. But I want to underscore what I’ve been saying, which is I believe Sarah Palin will run for president. Just want to put my marker down because others are starting to do it and I put it down quite some time ago." (source: Daily Caller

Robert Reich thinks the president may be ready to propose something bold on jobs.