House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) raised $717,931 through his PAC and joint fundraising committee during April. One of his major donors in April was Ted Weschler, a manager of investments at Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and former managing partner of hedge fund Pennisula Capital Advisors.

Jonathan Cohn, New RepublicThe debate over the IRS scandal officially became ludicrous on Thursday, when Republicans decided to use it as a cudgel for bashing Obamacare.The day started with Republican lawmakers warning darkly that, under Obamacare, the Internal Revenue Service would use its power to pry into individual medical records or otherwise invade personal liberty. “That’s part of Obamacare,” said Senator ...

The tea-party movement he helped foster won't fall in line behind his efforts to push an alternative conservative agenda.    

Coinciding with the House's vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) promoted a hashtag on Twitter that stirred up partisan emotions on both sides of the aisle. Issa's hashtag — #ObamacareInThreeWords — encouraged snark on both sides of the aisle. It also prompted a back and forth between the White House and House Speaker John ...

Readers of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks" know that I have not always treated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor kindly. I have excoriated him for engineering the debt-ceiling crisis in 2011 as a hostage-taking exercise, and then blowing up the talks between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner that could have led to a grand bargain. Cantor himself recently ...