The Prowler

People like to talk about the bubble that President Barack Obama lives in, pointing out that he surrounded by more than the usual number of sycophants in this White House. “You have Valerie [Jarrett] berating just about anyone who she…

Before its passage late last night, Republican leadership in the House of Representatives grew nervous Thursday about mounting opposition to what some conservatives were calling the “Compromised Tax Bill.” So nervous in fact that they were considering what one member…

Staffers at the Federal Communications Commission with ties to the commission’s chairman, Julius Genachowski, coordinated media and strategy planning with senior Free Press and MoveOn.org officials in the run up to Genachowski’s announcement that he would be seeking an FCC…

WHO’S MINDING DEMINT? Look for Sen. Jim DeMint to use his leverage and newly expanded caucus of fiscal-conservative Senators to influence the Senate Appropriations Committee. Senate leadership staff expect that — depending on Democrat turnover and Republican gains that have…

JUST WONDERING Which outgoing Democratic U.S. Senator is flouting Senate ethics rules by negotiating his upcoming million-dollar-salary private sector job heading a Washington business coalition while still serving on a committee that deals with issues that directly impact the industry…

MEETINGS WITH MITT Back in the 2008 primary season, Mitt Romney‘s staff ran a tight and close-knit shop, and when meeting with prospective donors felt confident enough in their campaign to lay it on the line bluntly. “I remember being…

House and Senate Republican staff members on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and House Government Oversight Committee say they will be more than happy to open investigations into White House and Democrat party charges of foreign financial…

Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are looking for ways to get incoming National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon before the committee. “If you look at his résumé, you’re kind of torn. On the one hand he was one of…

While traveling on a U.S. State Department-funded tour of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man who backs the Cordoba Initiative, which would fund the construction of a mosque near the site of the World Trade…

White House sources say there is increased talk that senior President Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod will exit his post after the mid-term elections, and be replaced by his campaign colleague and business partner David Plouffe. Plouffe has been holding…