From Politico: "Republicans and Democrats slammed Rep. Alan Grayson for calling Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a 'K Street whore' in a month-old radio interview that circulated on Capitol Hill Monday night.
"There’s no call for that language. No call for it. That’s absurd. If he was [...]
Arizona Republican Rep. Jeff Flake -- who has long led efforts to lift the embargo against Cuba -- recently spent a week on a deserted island in the Pacific, practicing his survival skills.
That prompted the blog, Capitol Hill Cubans, to posit that the anti-embargo lawmaker was practicing for life on Cuba, [...]
"As the administration continues its extended deliberations in pursuit of a new strategy for the war, allies in Afghanistan have begun to grumble about American dithering," Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank writes. "The pace of the policy review is causing worry in both parties on Capitol Hill.
" 'It has been' [...]