The congressman would be thrilled to have the president come down for a fund-raising event.

He was doing things to help cancer survivors and cancer research, nothing to help with the election. ... It's a sad day when someone uses cancer survival as a political football.

Congressman Shaw will continue an aggressive fund-raising schedule. He is pleased to have nearly a million and a half in the bank with 10 months out from election day.

Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.

To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.

During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.