!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");   --> DisplayInlineAd(Drupal.settings.denali.ad_locations_str,"Middle3"); Worse than Watergate. That's the refrain coming from the Obama administration's critics as it scrambles to tamp down a growing pile of scandals. "The Obama administration's cover-up of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack surpasses Watergate," states Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). The IRS-tea party scandal "is far worse than Watergate," according ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seen before he presents his 2013-14 Executive Budget  (AP Photo/Mike Groll) You’ve got to hand it to them: Republicans know how to find connections between their issues – even if they’re of the perverse, dishonest variety. Last week, New York’s Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo urged lawmakers, following Assemblyman Vito Lopez’s sexual harassment scandal, to ...

You'd have to search long and hard to find a member of Congress not outraged that politics and partisanship crept into the work of the IRS, leading to the wrongful targeting of tea partiers and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. "The American people have a right to expect that the IRS will exercise its authority in a neutral, non-biased ...

Robert Braddock, the finance director of the 2012 congressional campaign of Christopher Donovan (D-CT-05), was found guilty yesterday by a federal Jury in New Haven, Connecticut. Braddock was found guilty of multiple campaign finance offenses directing illegal contributions to a federal campaign. View Department of Justice release.

Anthony Weiner. (Photo: Twitter) Despite the crotch shots circulating the Internet and the botched cover-up that forced him to resign from Congress in shame, ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner says he believes he can win the mayor's race. “Yes,” he told Politicker Wednesday afternoon when asked whether he honestly thinks he can become the city's next mayor. The comments came in a ...