Topic - Democratic Party

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  Foreign donations at risk in super PAC landscape

  Money pouring into the presidential election from super political action committees and nonprofit campaign groups appears so far to be strictly American in origin, donated by U.S. companies, unions and millionaires. But it's easier than ever to conceal the source of money and the identities of contributors, making conditions ripe for illegal donations from foreigners, overseas companies or governments attempting to help a favored candidate for the White House.

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  TYRRELL: Delousing of a movement

  As the tents were coming down at McPherson Square, the dead rats and mice being retrieved, the urine and feces and filthy bedding disposed of by D.C. employees dressed in hazardous-materials suits like their contemporaries at Fukushima, Japan, I thought of the left-wing press. You see, I read the left-wing press.

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  CORBIN and PARKS: Yes, we can

  The defining moment of President Obama's 2008 campaign came on the night he clinched the Democratic Party nomination.

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  NUGENT: The Great Keystone XL Pipeline Massacre

  President Obama's decision to put a bullet in the back of the head of the Keystone XL pipeline is all the proof you need to know that his modus operandi is to sidle up to environmental green-energy crackpots instead of creating thousands of American jobs and honestly pursuing energy independence for America.

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  Virginia GOP flexing muscle to advance legislation

  About a quarter of the way through the state's General Assembly session, Republicans thus far have flexed their strengthened muscles to advance legislation on redistricting, abortion and gun rights — with many Democrats left simply to stand and protest.

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  Biden bullish on Dems' November prospects

  Vice President Joseph Biden told House Democrats Friday he was confident they'll win back control of the chamber after the November elections and offered his campaign support for members in several key swing states.

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  OWENS: Keystone Kops energy policy

  In his State of the Union speech, President Obama had barely cleared his throat when he outlined his vision for an American "future where we're in control of our own energy, and our security and prosperity aren't so tied to unstable parts of the world." Just days before, he had delivered a crippling blow to his own plan.

• Embassy Row

  Russian state television this week denounced U.S. Ambassador Michael A. McFaul after the American envoy met with political opposition leaders in Moscow.

• Inside Politics

  The House Republican campaign chairman, Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, has been notified that he received a discounted mortgage from the now-defunct Countrywide Financial Corp.

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  Obama's cash haul in 2011 tops $220M

  President Obama hauled in more than $68 million for his campaign and the Democratic Party during the final three months of 2011, a show of force that allows him to compete — for now at least — in the new reality of freewheeling outside political groups.

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  Virginia GOP party voter oath 'unenforceable,' McDonnell says

  Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling are urging the Republican Party of Virginia State Central Committee to rescind a "loyalty oath" that would require voters to sign a statement saying that they intend to support the party's nominee before they are allowed to vote in the March 6 primary.

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  In Iowa, 40 years at starting line of presidential race

  Iowa is whiter, more rural and older than much of the rest of the U.S., but the small, middle-America state has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep a firm hold on its special claim as the first state to vote in presidential contests.

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  The List: Top 20 events of 2011

  From Occupy Wall Street to the Joplin tornado, the debt-ceiling battle and the killing of Osama bin Laden, 2011 will not soon be forgotten.

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  House balance may hinge on court rulings

  The 2012 congressional elections are more than 10 months away, but some key votes already have been cast — and not by the electorate.

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  Va. presidential ballot certification to be challenged

  A former Democratic Party of Virginia chairman is teaming up with a conservative group to challenge the certifications of Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul for the March 6 presidential primary ballot after a long weekend of hand wringing over the Republican Party of Virginia's stringent qualification requirements.

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